Fouzi Lekjaa arrived in Zagora with PAM’s program to sell and found a local list waiting for him, as the party’s candidate raised the absence of a university branch in a province of around 400,000 people and poor network coverage in several communes.
The two problems were brought to Lekjaa’s attention on his arrival at the campaign gathering, prompting a promise that they would be raised immediately.
“They do not have a university branch where their sons and daughters can study,” he told the audience. “These two problems, we are going to put them on the table tomorrow.”
The concerns gave a local edge to another stop in a campaign that has taken Lekjaa through several parts of the country on behalf of PAM ahead of the September 23 legislative election. Lekjaa, a member of the party’s political bureau, is not himself contesting the vote but has become one of its most visible campaigners.
In Zagora, the discussion moved from higher education and network coverage to water and the province’s links with surrounding areas.
Agriculture and the oases depend on water, and Lekjaa said the difficulties facing farmers needed an answer. “We have to find a solution to this problem,” he said.
He also linked the province’s development to better connections with other areas, arguing that roads and other infrastructure were needed to make it easier for people and goods to move.
“The economic development of a region is linked to it being open to other provinces,” he said, adding that PAM’s program had to take into account the infrastructure needs of communes across the province.
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For Lekjaa, those concerns showed how the party says its national program should work when it reaches individual constituencies.
“Our program starts from the reality that you all know,” he said, adding that PAM had studied both its proposals and how they would be financed.
When the campaign moved to Taliouine on Sunday, September 13, Lekjaa stayed with that message. He stressed the role of local party officials and the need to remain close to residents, saying the problems people face in their own areas should help set the party’s priorities.
“What makes us move is serving the interests of Moroccans and Morocco,” he said.
Alongside those local issues, Lekjaa referred to measures already included in PAM’s program, including a MAD3,000 minimum monthly pension and MAD1,000 in direct assistance for eligible families.
He also spoke about purchasing power in Zagora, arguing that higher prices had eaten into the gains households might otherwise have seen from salary increases and government assistance.
“The high cost of living has taken all the flavor out of salary increases and aid,” he said. “We want to put prices back in their place.”
Lekjaa tied those measures to PAM’s argument that different parts of the country should not be left behind, again using the image of a Morocco moving together at “TGV speed” as the party looks towards 2031.
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In Zagora, that argument came down to immediate concerns raised during the stop—somewhere for young people to continue their university studies, reliable network coverage, water for farmers and oases, and better links with neighboring provinces.
“We will put all our efforts and all our strength at the service of the interests of Moroccans and Morocco,” Lekjaa said.
Calling for a strong turnout on September 23, he told voters to keep PAM’s program as the measure of what the party was promising during the campaign.
“Take our program. It is the contract that binds us to you.”
