Morocco’s Left Alliance Launches Election Program of 431 Measures Worth MAD 500 Billion

Marrakech – The Left Alliance presented its electoral program on Tuesday in Casablanca, ahead of the legislative elections scheduled for September 23. The coalition, which brings together the Democratic Left Federation (FGD) and the Unified Socialist Party (PSU), placed its platform under the slogan “Dignity first – for a democratic, productive, and just Morocco.”

The program lists 431 measures and frames itself as a five-year roadmap running from 2027 to 2031, with a total envelope of MAD 500 billion ($50 billion).

The two parties formed the alliance in June, presenting it as more than an electoral arrangement. Abdessalam Aziz, secretary general of the FGD, traced their joint work back to a period stretching from 2007 to 2021 and described the alliance as a political and unitary project rather than a temporary pact.

Jamal El Asri, secretary general of the PSU, cast the coalition as a response to political, economic, social, and human rights challenges that, in his account, threaten national sovereignty and deepen class, territorial, and regional inequalities.

The platform organizes its proposals around economic, energy, and water sovereignty, social justice, public education and health, and fiscal reform.

On energy, the alliance proposes reactivating the Samir refinery by buying its assets, a step it estimates could lower fuel prices by MAD 3 to 5 ($0.30 to $0.50) per liter and secure a national fuel stock covering 60 days. It sets a target of raising renewable energy to between 30% and 40% by 2031 and reserving 30% of public contracts for small enterprises.

Water receives comparable attention. The program calls for an emergency water law, a cap on groundwater extraction, and a ban on the production and export of what it terms “virtual water,” meaning water-intensive crops. It also proposes keeping seawater desalination plants under public ownership.

On agriculture, the alliance would redirect support toward 80% of small farmers, protect local seeds, and guarantee fertilizers at preferential and fair prices. For rural and mountainous areas, the platform pledges 15,000 kilometers of new roads and drinking water connections for 90% of douars, alongside support for subsistence farming and job creation for young people and women.

Wages, welfare, and public services

The social chapter, built around what the alliance calls “justice and dignity,” centers on wages and welfare. The program would unify the minimum wage across agricultural and non-agricultural sectors and raise it to MAD 5,000 ($500) net by 2029, paired with a system indexing wages and pensions. It also proposes exempting basic goods and medicines from value-added tax and capping fuel prices and margins.

Several measures target specific groups. Mothers who give birth in public hospitals would receive a birth bonus of MAD 5,000 ($500), and the alliance would build 3,000 free public daycares in neighborhoods and rural communes. People with disabilities would receive an autonomy allowance of MAD 1,500 ($150) per month, backed by 30,000 school life-assistant posts, a national accessibility plan, and a 7% employment quota.

For young people, the platform offers a monthly allowance of MAD 1,500 ($150) to unemployed graduates for up to one year, along with 150,000 jobs for jobless youth. Older citizens are covered through a dignity income of MAD 1,500 ($150) per month for those without a pension, a pension increase of MAD 2,000 ($200) per month, and full transfer of a spouse’s pension to a widow.

The program would set a minimum pension equal to the minimum wage, halve multidimensional poverty, and raise direct social support to MAD 39 billion ($3.9 billion) per year. It targets the elimination of slum housing and the treatment of all recorded buildings at risk of collapse, alongside a universal birth grant covering 600,000 newborns per year. On gender, the alliance commits to reserving a third of parliamentary seats and 40% of senior public posts for women, raising women’s access to agricultural land to 25%, and reforming the family code within 12 months.

The alliance attached a series of numeric targets to its 2031 horizon. On the economy, it commits to creating 300,000 net jobs each year, cutting youth unemployment below 25%, and reducing the share of salaried young people without contracts from 73% to under 35%. It would halve undeclared work, cut the informal economy’s share by a third, and raise women’s labor participation to 30%. The program also sets a cereal self-sufficiency rate of 65% and pledges to reduce digital illiteracy from 56% to under 25%.

Housing forms part of the same axis. The alliance would build 100,000 affordable public rental units, with rent capped at 20% of household income.

Education and health are presented as absolute priorities, with MAD 70.9 billion ($7.09 billion) earmarked for schools and universities and MAD 80.2 billion ($8.02 billion) for public health.

It earmarks 6% of GDP for the education system and 12% of the general budget for health, while cutting the share of workers without health coverage from 68% to under 40%. Rural commitments include connecting 80% of rural schools to the internet, creating 100 mobile health units, cutting ambulance response time to under 30 minutes, and halving rural maternal mortality.

In schools, the program would cap classes at 24 pupils in primary and 30 in secondary, end multi-level classes, and pursue a “zero dropout” plan through free school transport and meals and upgraded boarding facilities for girls. It gives priority to Arabic and Amazigh while opening instruction to French and English from preschool, and would adopt a unified, equitable status for teachers.

Higher education would become free, with an autonomy allowance for students, doubled university housing and dining capacity, generalized paid internships, and the recruitment of 8,000 to 10,000 teacher-researchers. The alliance would also raise research and development spending to 1.2% of GDP and create an independent national research and innovation agency.

On health, the platform proposes full coverage of chronic disease treatment, a 30% to 50% cut in drug prices, and the recruitment of 15,000 health workers. It would direct 50% of insurance reimbursements toward public hospitals, sanction private clinics that require guarantee checks from patients, and establish a National Pharmacy Office to lower drug prices and support local production of medicines and vaccines.

Rights, governance, and the bill

Beyond economic and social policy, the alliance advances a rights agenda. It calls for releasing political prisoners, detainees from social movements, journalists, and bloggers, along with a general amnesty and the dropping of prosecutions during the first year of the legislative term, coupled with redress and rehabilitation.

The program would abolish custodial sentences in opinion cases and review laws governing freedoms, including the strike law, criminal procedure, the lawyers’ law, and rules tied to the National Press Council.

On governance, the platform proposes a national integrity and transparency system, measures against corruption, conflicts of interest, and illicit enrichment, and stronger participatory democracy through legislative initiative and binding petitions. It also sets out a binding timetable and guaranteed budget to activate the official status of Amazigh across administration, justice, health, media, and the digital space.

The alliance’s founding pact ties these goals to a parliamentary monarchy, a genuine separation of powers, an independent judiciary, the defense of territorial integrity, opposition to normalization, and support for the Palestinian cause.

Fiscal and public-service targets follow the same quantified logic. The coalition estimates the cost of its program at MAD 500 billion ($50 billion) over 2027-2031, financed mainly through what it calls fiscal justice rather than debt. The alliance would raise the tax burden to 25.8% of GDP and cut unjustified tax expenditures by about 39%. It aims to bring Treasury debt down to 63% and hold the deficit between 3.8% and 4%.

According to the program, resources would be spread across the mandate, with MAD 70 billion ($7 billion) in 2026, MAD 36 billion ($3.6 billion) in 2027, MAD 102 billion ($10.2 billion) in 2029, MAD 130 billion ($13 billion) in 2030, and MAD 162 billion ($16.2 billion) in 2031.

The presentation itself was marked by the recent events in occupied Ceuta and by attempts at youth migration toward the city. Aziz recalled that transport stations had filled with young Moroccans seeking to leave, arguing that they wanted to emigrate because they no longer trusted their country or its future.

He presented the election as a moment that should shape the country’s direction, and pointed to the left’s long-standing demand to liberate occupied Ceuta and Melilla, calling it a central issue in the program.

El Asri placed the vote in what he called a delicate national and international moment, shaped by environmental, digital, technological, geopolitical, and economic shifts. He posed the questions the alliance says it wants to answer – what Morocco, what state, what economy, and what society to build – and argued that overcoming the country’s structural imbalances requires political courage and a break with patchwork governance.

In his account, the alliance wants a Morocco where institutions prevail over the concentration of power, production over rent, dignity over precariousness, equality over exclusion, and social justice over privilege.