Morocco should be moving at the speed of a TGV rather than waiting for promises dusted off at every election, Fouzi Lekjaa told a PAM rally in Azrou on Friday as he set an ambitious target of taking the country’s education and healthcare systems to sixth place in the world.
Lekjaa, a member of the party’s political bureau, told the gathering that the target would not be easy but insisted it was within reach.
He said PAM had chosen to put numbers against its commitments so that voters could judge what was being offered before going to the polls on September 23.
The program, he said, dealt with the problems people encountered every day, particularly schools, healthcare, the cost of living, jobs and pensions.
Turning to education, Lekjaa said Morocco should not shy away from setting itself a place among the world’s leading countries.
Sixth place was the target he put before the crowd.
Difficult, he conceded, but not beyond a country and a generation capable of getting there with the right choices and the will to carry them through.
Purchasing power was another matter PAM could not leave alone, he said. The party would use the legal means available to bring down pressure on household budgets and the cost of living.
On pensions, Lekjaa was more specific.
PAM wants the minimum pension raised to MAD3,000 a month, arguing that people who have spent around 40 years working should not reach retirement without an income that allows them to live with dignity.
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He then turned to young people, saying the state needed to stay with them from their years in education until they found work or started businesses of their own.
Moroccan youth, he said, had already shown at home and abroad what they were capable of doing. The challenge was to create the same opportunities here so that leaving the country did not appear the better bet.
Healthcare brought him back to the question of pace.
Lekjaa said PAM wanted a hospital system that treated patients with dignity and provided care of a standard people could trust. Morocco, he added, could not continue with citizens living at “two different speeds."
His answer was the TGV.
“We want Morocco to move at TGV speed,” he told the gathering, contrasting that ambition with promises made when elections approach and forgotten afterwards.
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Lekjaa also urged those present to turn out in numbers on September 23, saying voters were free to examine the programs on offer and make their choice.
PAM’s own program, he said, was deliberately written so that its commitments could be read, understood and eventually measured against what the party delivered.
Lors du discours de Fouzi Lekjaa à Azrou, vendredi 11 septembre 2026. (Y.Jaoual/Le360)
And as the meeting drew to a close, the high-speed train gave way to PAM’s more familiar mode of transport.
The tractor had already taken on many passengers, Lekjaa told the crowd.
There was still room aboard.
