The September 23 elections should not become another exercise in listing what has gone wrong, Fouzi Lekjaa said on Thursday, arguing that voters should instead be offered a change in the country’s policy direction.
“Correct the course and change it” was the message the PAM political bureau member brought to a gathering of at least 400 people in Casablanca as the party began campaigning for the parliamentary elections.
But Lekjaa was unhappy with where some of the political debate had already gone.
“I speak first with pain and bitterness for my country,” he said, complaining that attention was being consumed by “the pressure cooker, the living room, or the distribution of positions and interests” rather than what parties proposed to do about the problems people faced.
For PAM, he said, the starting point was purchasing power. And the test was whether Moroccans could afford what they put in their shopping basket. Lekjaa said the party wanted prices brought down to levels that would improve household living conditions.
Healthcare, in his telling, presented a different version of the same problem—announcing projects was not enough if the service itself did not improve.
“Healthcare is not about constructing buildings but about encouraging and convincing doctors and nurses to work in hospitals,” he said.
He called for the same focus on results in education, saying reforms in both sectors ultimately had to show up in better indicators.
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Young people also figured prominently in his address, this time through the question of trust in politics.
“We must give young people opportunities to succeed in every field, from football to invention,” Lekjaa said, arguing that restoring that trust required giving them credible routes to succeed.
There was, however, one thing he said he did not want from the election himself: a seat.
“I am not running in the elections, and I am not interested in doing so,” he said. “What matters to me is Morocco and Moroccans.”
Lekjaa went on to praise PAM’s organization in Casablanca and said he was confident the party could secure a strong result in Casablanca-Settat when voters go to the polls on September 23.
