Five years after the grand promises of the #YouDeserveBetter campaign and the advent of a “social state” held up as the answer to Morocco’s problems, the record of the RNI-led 2021-2026 term is dismal. Soaring inflation, record unemployment, public services under crippling strain and social reforms mired in bureaucracy: this is the story of a resounding failure, in which the government’s technocratic ambitions collided with reality.