Fouzi Lekjaa put a MAD350bn price tag on PAM’s five-year election program in Agadir, where he promised higher pensions, tax changes to raise incomes and new measures to bring down the gap between producer and consumer prices.
Addressing a rally at the Théâtre de Verdure, Lekjaa said the program would require MAD70bn a year and insisted it could be financed without raising taxes on citizens.
“This program is not made up of promises, opinions or wishes. These are concrete proposals on which PAM members have worked,” he said.
Lekjaa said the party had worked out how the money would be raised.
Among the promises is a minimum pension of MAD3,000 a month.
For those still working, Lekjaa said PAM was proposing an overhaul of taxation that could leave them with between MAD1,500 and MAD4,000 more in monthly income.
Widows would also keep the full pension of their deceased husbands under the party’s proposals.
“The family remains the same. The children continue studying and the expenses remain the same, or even increase,” he said. “The widow must therefore keep the pension in full.”
Lekjaa also spoke at length about prices, saying protecting purchasing power was one of the party’s main election commitments.
“The purchasing power of citizens must be preserved, and products necessary for daily life must remain at normal prices,” he said.
He said PAM wanted tighter control over the distribution of essential goods to reduce the difference between the price received by producers and what consumers eventually pay.
“We must review the distribution of essential products and better control it, so that the price between the producer and the consumer remains reasonable and corresponds to the commercial margin,” he said.
Lekjaa also turned to young people, saying years of accumulated difficulties had left some of them on the margins.
He said PAM was proposing what he described as a broader program to help young people create economic value rather than remain excluded.
Lors du discours de Fouzi Lekjaa à Agadir. (M. Oubarka/Le360)
Health and education were also on Lekjaa’s list, with 2031 set as the deadline for services in both sectors to meet citizens’ expectations across the country.
“There must not be two speeds. We will work so that Morocco moves forward at the same pace,” he said.
Abdellatif Ouahbi, Younes Sekkouri, PAM candidates from Souss-Massa and party activists were among those attending the rally.
