Electoral Program
Political Bureau
Rabat
This program represents a coherent political vision for the Social Democratic Movement Party. It stems from clear principles through a social development approach aimed at improving the living conditions of female and male citizens, consolidating the values of democracy and social justice, and providing stable and ambitious alternatives, and realistic, applicable solutions.
The First Axis: The Political Document of the Program: Current Situation and National Opportunities
- First: Public Schools: Ensuring equality of opportunity
- Second: Vocational Training: The path to accessing stable and productive work
- Third: Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation: The confusion of reform
- Fourth: Employment status
- Fifth: Youth unemployment after completing studies and training
- Sixth: Health and social protection
- Seventh: The economy of culture and creativity
First: Strategic Roadmap
The Social Democratic Movement program is founded on a strategic framework based on the Constitution of the Kingdom and the established national constants. It places at the core of its vision the ambition of the new generation of integrated territorial development programs. It also presents its ideas and commitments with full consideration of the developments achieved by the primary National Cause, positioning itself within this dynamic politically and realistically, in order to accompany the new phase with commitment and responsibility.
The program also expresses the party's principles, embodying its political, social, and economic aspirations. It connects, with realism and clarity, the facts of reality to practical and achievable procedural and political alternatives, thereby enhancing its ability to respond to challenges and formulate realistic solutions consistent with the aspirations of society.
The party's principles and orientations, which take social democratic principles as their basic reference, make it a fundamental player within the Moroccan political framework and within the party landscape in our country.
Second: Fundamental Values
- Respect for the law
- Constructive political participation;
- Supporting social cohesion and peace;
- Strengthening party and political pluralism.
Third: Social Vision
- Focus on social justice and equality of opportunity;
- Stopping territorial disparities regarding development opportunities.
- Improving the quality of public services;
- Supporting purchasing power within a sustainable vision that does not rely on transient temporary solutions;
- Optimal investment in the human element.
Fourth: Program Methodology
- Valuation vision (Law, democracy, rights, freedoms);
- Clear mechanisms for measurement and tracking according to objective, reviewable standards;
- Traceable and evaluable implementation mechanisms;
- An integrated vision between principles, program, and public policies;
- Linking national reality with global trends;
- Focus on social and economic impact.
Fifth: Legislative quality is dependent on innovating new mechanisms for measurement
Despite the progress achieved in the legislative and regulatory record through the approval, since the beginning of the previous 2021-2026 mandate, of a significant number represented by approximately 800 legal and regulatory texts—most of which were executive decrees totaling about 600, while the remainder comprised about 100 laws—these have nonetheless not exceeded the ceiling of national ambitions and the expectations of citizens from parliamentary work, especially regarding the social dimension, territorial justice, and the protection of purchasing power...
On the other hand, government dominance continues alongside the persistent limitation of parliamentary legislative initiative for the representatives of the nation. This raises many questions about the participatory approach within the parliamentary institution, and the issue of balance between the executive and legislative branches in producing legal rules. Fundamentally, the problem regarding the human and technical capabilities of the legislative institution to fulfill its roles completely is raised again.
Furthermore, measuring the legislative impact on the lives of citizens should not be interpreted according to a narrow partisan view, or even based on the conceptions of the parties forming the government. Rather, it is necessary to innovate objective and neutral mechanisms that can measure the impact based on precise methodologies or benefit from advanced globally recognized methods.
The previous mandate witnessed the postponement or disruption of the approval of a number of draft laws due to tensions and clashes with various groups of social actors, who expressed exclusion and injustice in the construction of the legal system, which they saw as an infringement on their rights and interests.
Therefore, the Social Democratic Movement Party proposes the actual and practical involvement of the bodies or groups concerned with legislation according to criteria that can be defined, to avoid wasting legislative time on one hand, and to create new mechanisms to bring legislation closer to those affected by it within the framework of institutional stability and the triumph of the culture of participation and consensus.
Sixth: The Current Political Context
The Moroccan political scene is characterized by pluralism and a diversity of political forces participating in defining public policies, which opens opportunities for our party to emphasize its vision and contributions to the national debate without the need to disparage any other party. Rising to social and economic challenges requires restoring prestige to party work and elevating political discourse, which cannot be achieved without a partisan community that agrees on the limits of fair competition. This is contrary to what we observe among some political elites in terms of skirmishes and unjustified accusations that depreciate political work as a whole and cause the citizen to lose focus on fundamental issues and programs. The matter intensifies when personal and family lives, as well as the financial integrity of political elites and leaders, are sometimes attacked without tangible arguments or evidence. These manifestations are no longer acceptable in the face of the objective expectations and constraints for the development and prosperity of today's Morocco.
Therefore, the Social Democratic Movement Party proposes establishing a code of ethics for partisan practice in our country, restoring trust in political action, and building an image that restores prestige to national parties and the respect due to them by various interlocutors.
Seventh: Parliamentary and Partisan Diplomacy
It has been proven through various stages in the Kingdom of Morocco's interaction with its regional and international environment that parallel diplomacy—particularly partisan and parliamentary diplomacy—is no longer a circumstantial matter or a duty to be dealt with occasionally or according to the subjective desires of actors. Rather, it has transformed into an indispensable national duty in projecting the Kingdom's influence and serving its central causes, especially the national cause, as well as the Kingdom's economic, cultural, and civilizational issues. This requires innovation in work methods and coordination of this national action, which complements the primary and direct roles played by official diplomacy.
Therefore, the Social Democratic Movement Party proposes adopting measures that strengthen the roles of partisan and parliamentary diplomacy by creating new mechanisms that enable precise knowledge of Morocco's international relations issues. This includes improving the quality of the contribution of parties and the legislative institution in performing their full role in close coordination with the foreign affairs sector, opening up to other economic and academic actors and representations of Moroccans of the world, and strengthening economic and cultural diplomacy and decentralized international cooperation. This contributes to diversifying the Kingdom's economic and political partnerships and working to maintain national consensus in protecting the achievements of territorial integrity and serving the country's vital interests.
Eighth: The Party's Position Within the Current National Scene
Over the years of its participation in Moroccan political life, the Social Democratic Movement Party has proven that it possesses a history capable of being invested in building coherent and persuasive programs and strengthening its ability to contribute to political debate and national institutional management through diverse political experiences, the most important of which are:
Continuous parliamentary representation, which enabled the party to:
- Participate in the democratic system and strengthen public debate around it;
- Contribute to the production and creation of legislation through effective representation within the legislative institution;
- An electoral presence capable of influencing;
- Effective contribution to parliamentary and partisan diplomacy;
- Presenting the Moroccan experience and explaining priority issues, led by the Moroccan Sahara issue, to international interlocutors;
- Gaining international recognition in appreciation of the party's personalities and their contributions.
The Second Axis: The Rural Domain and Spatial Disparities
First: Basic Services and Spatial Justice
Second: Employment, Investment, and the Absence of Economic Attractiveness for the Rural Domain
First: Basic Services and Spatial Justice
According to the latest official statistics, the rural domain includes 13.7 million people, representing 37.2% of the Kingdom's population. However, it still faces disparities in access to basic services. Multi-dimensional poverty reaches 13.1% in rural areas compared to 3% in urban areas, while a significant percentage of rural households suffer from a lack of connection to the drinking water network, and a significant number of them rely on alternatives that degrade dignity and harm the environment for wastewater disposal. This confirms that the most prominent challenge lies in ensuring basic, accessible, fair, and high-quality public services.
Therefore, the Social Democratic Movement Party proposes adopting an integrated policy for spatial justice, starting with directing investment toward the most disadvantaged areas, accelerating the generalization of water, sanitation, and digital connectivity, and bringing basic services closer to the population. This includes rehabilitating roads and tracks and ending the isolation of villages (douars) according to clear territorial priorities with social returns.
Second: Employment, Investment, and the Absence of Economic Attractiveness for the Rural Domain
The limitation and fragility of employment opportunities remain among the most prominent obstacles to the attractiveness of the rural domain. The underemployment rate reached 13.2% in 2025, compared to 9.6% in urban areas. The rural environment also recorded the loss of 10,000 jobs during the same year, for example. These data highlight the need for a more diversified rural economy that invests in new, productive, and less costly sectors, opening additional margins for the national economy and reflecting positively on rural development.
Therefore, the Social Democratic Movement Party proposes building a productive and diversified rural economy by stimulating local investment, supporting enterprises and cooperatives, valuing local products, developing food and processing industries, rural tourism, and the social and solidarity economy. This is to be accompanied by facilitating access to financing, real estate, and markets, and linking investment incentives to the creation of jobs and local added value. The goal is to make the rural world a space for living, production, and investment, thereby consolidating spatial justice and making development a right available to the citizen regardless of their location.
Third Pillar: The Social and Developmental Dimension
- First: The Public School: Ensuring Equal Opportunities
- Second: Vocational Training: The Path toward Accessing Stable and Productive Work
- Third: Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation: The Confusion of Reform
- Fourth: The Employment Situation
- Fifth: Youth Unemployment after Graduation and Training
- Sixth: Health and Social Protection
- Seventh: The Economy of Culture and Creativity
First: A Single-Speed Morocco
The ambition of a single-speed Morocco requires reducing spatial disparities as a clear priority, for the benefit of villages, mountains, border areas, and marginal neighborhoods, ensuring they benefit equally from basic services and guaranteeing a unified level of dignity and opportunities. This shall be achieved by considering the specificities of the territory and its requirements, including linking funding to achievement, regulating service quality indicators and project implementation deadlines, and linking responsibility to accountability.
A sincere political will from the political community in our country has become an urgent matter that tolerates no delay or slowness in decision-making or fragmentation of responsibilities in achieving the ambition of integrated spatial development, to reduce the distance between the center and the territory, and between the right and the actual enjoyment thereof.
Second: Water, Food, and Energy Sovereignty
Water Sovereignty
Water is no longer just an environmental or technical issue, but has become a matter of national sovereignty, especially in the face of climate change and increasing demand for water. This necessitates a transition from a crisis management policy to a proactive policy that makes water security a permanent priority in public planning and management, ensuring the ability to secure basic needs regardless of climatic and economic conditions.
This sovereignty requires intensive investment in seawater desalination, maintenance of distribution networks, and reducing water loss rates. Agriculture should also be further directed toward water-saving irrigation techniques, linking the exploitation of water resources to the principle of sustainability and protecting groundwater and basins. Every dirham invested in water must translate into tangible water security, fairness in distribution, and protection for the future.
Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty is an integral part of national sovereignty, necessitating the real capacity to produce a basic portion of citizens' needs, securing supply chains, and reducing market vulnerability to price fluctuations and international crises. This mandates restoring the status of the farmer as a front-line partner in achieving food sovereignty goals by directing public policies toward supporting small and medium-sized farmers, facilitating their access to financing and modern technologies, and protecting agricultural land, while improving storage, cold chains, and transport.
Addressing the imbalances of high prices borne by the consumer—from which the producer does not always benefit—requires a review by reducing non-productive intermediaries, encouraging cooperatives, modernizing the wholesale market system, and developing direct sales. All these measures can help achieve a balance between the farmer's interest and the citizen's purchasing power.
Energy Sovereignty
Energy represents the third link in the sovereignty system. The high cost of energy reflects on industry, agriculture, transport, and the prices of products and services. Meanwhile, the transition to renewable energies offers an opportunity to build a more independent and competitive economy by increasing electricity production with greater reliance on solar and wind energy, and building an integrated energy system that includes storage, modernizing transmission and distribution networks, improving energy efficiency, and encouraging households and businesses to save on consumption. Furthermore, the national industry for renewable energy equipment must be developed, and productive sectors should benefit from more stable energy, creating a culture of rationalizing energy use as part of industrial, agricultural, and urban policy.
The Social Democratic Movement Party places water, food, and energy sovereignty within an integrated political project, not as three separate files. Water needs energy, food needs water and energy, and energy itself needs investments, industry, and national skills. Therefore, the real challenge is building a system more capable of protecting resources, a more independent economy, and a citizen who is more secure in their basic needs.
Energy Sovereignty
Energy represents the third link in the sovereignty system. The high cost of energy reflects on industry, agriculture, transport, and the prices of products and services. Meanwhile, the transition to renewable energies offers an opportunity to build a more independent and competitive economy by increasing electricity production with greater reliance on solar and wind energy, and building an integrated energy system that includes storage, modernizing transmission and distribution networks, improving energy efficiency, and encouraging households and businesses to save on consumption. Furthermore, the national industry for renewable energy equipment must be developed, and productive sectors should benefit from more stable energy, creating a culture of rationalizing energy use as part of industrial, agricultural, and urban policy.
The Social Democratic Movement Party places water, food, and energy sovereignty within an integrated political project, not as three separate files. Water needs energy, food needs water and energy, and energy itself needs investments, industry, and national skills. Therefore, the real challenge is building a system more capable of protecting resources, a more independent economy, and a citizen who is more secure in their basic needs.
Third: A Strong Economy Creating Jobs and Dignity
A strong and capable economy is founded on job creation, elevating the level of social dignity, and an economic model that increases productivity, stimulates investment, and enhances competitiveness, while simultaneously preserving purchasing power and the stability of the middle class. The fundamental challenge lies in achieving high growth rates while ensuring this growth translates into job opportunities and a fairer economic system.
The recorded weak capacity of some sectors to create added value, high investment costs, and difficulty in accessing financing for small and medium-sized enterprises, in addition to the dilemma of complex procedures, are all factors that limit the expansion of productive investment. This directly affects the protection of purchasing power, as rising prices in the absence of wage increases lead to a decline in consumption and the weakening of the middle class. This urgently requires directing investment toward value-added sectors, such as exportable services, the digital economy, and renewable energies, while facilitating SME access to financing and markets, continuing to simplify procedures and reduce investment timelines, and supporting the groups most affected by the high cost of living.
Fourth: Health and Social Protection "Proximity Health 2031"
In our party, we envision that reordering the priorities of the health system is achieved first by prioritizing prevention and early detection, as it is less costly than treating intractable and advanced cases. It also reduces pressure on hospitals by disseminating a new societal culture that prioritizes regular screening programs for diabetes, hypertension, cancer, vaccination, maternal and child health, mental health, and nutritional awareness...
We propose adopting a national program titled "Proximity Health 2031," based on defining a national minimum of services that must be available in every territorial commune, while providing mobile medical and nursing teams in rural and remote areas, and funding health centers according to performance indicators, number of beneficiaries, appointment timelines, vaccination rates, early detection, and chronic disease follow-up.
Fifth: Lifelong Learning and Granting a Second Chance
In our party, we envision education as a continuous path for capacity building and ongoing adaptation to economic, technological, and social transformations. From this perspective, lifelong learning through granting a second chance should shift from a social principle into a public policy that guarantees a good school, a more flexible university, training linked to labor market needs, and a real right to return to learning.
On the other hand, the university should not be viewed through the logic of a rigid equation—study, then degree, then work. Flexibility requires the university to allow for mobility between specialties, continuous training, and a blend of in-person and digital education, while recognizing competencies acquired outside the traditional academic path.
To accompany any reform, it is necessary to:
- Integrate practical training and professional projects into education, and link part of the evaluation of university programs to clear indicators, such as graduate employability and the relevance of acquired skills to the needs of productive sectors;
- Create flexible pathways for school dropouts and workers wishing to change their profession, combining in-person and digital education, vocational training, and guidance;
- Build a system that makes education accessible for return at any stage of life, links knowledge to skill and work, and gives those who faltered a second chance.
Sixth: Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence
Digital transformation has become a lever for reorganizing the economy, administration, and public services, reducing transaction costs, improving decision quality, increasing productivity, and expanding access to services. Consequently, the integration of Artificial Intelligence should be directed toward serving humans, while ensuring digital security, data protection, and equity in access—starting from digitizing paper procedures to re-engineering services into a simplified and fast process based on the "once-only" information principle.
In addition to developing digital identity and adopting proactive services that predict needs and respond to citizen requests, Artificial Intelligence would assist in document processing, error detection, and improving resource allocation. However, final decisions in sensitive areas must remain subject to human review.
Data has become an administrative, economic, and strategic resource, and transforming it into added value requires infrastructure, clear rules for access and sharing, and strict privacy protection. Therefore, an environment should be established that allows companies and universities to develop applications based on reliable data, while adopting standards for transparency, data quality, and "cyber" security.
The integration of digital literacy and Artificial Intelligence into education and vocational training has become essential, along with programs to retrain employees and workers to enable them to achieve the technological accompaniment necessary for the functioning of the administration and institutions.
Seventh: The State of Law, Efficacy, and Participation
In order for the law to fulfill its function and achieve the purpose of its production, it must be clear, stable, and applicable, ensuring equality before those to whom it is addressed. Furthermore, the strength of the administration is manifested in providing the appropriate service at the right time and at the lowest cost, while focusing on simplifying procedures and creating formulas for citizen involvement in decision-making.
Accordingly, we envision that overlapping and obsolete texts should be reviewed, procedures simplified, and new laws subjected to a prior assessment of their economic and social impact. Legal texts must also be made understandable to the citizen, precise deadlines for procedures must be established, and sometimes unjustified discretionary power—which may open the door to disparities in interpretation and application—must be reduced.
Moreover, genuine administrative reform requires the adoption of clear contracts within public administrations and institutions, and linking the evaluation of administrative officials to the quality of services and results actually achieved. This should be accompanied by expanding digitalization, unifying databases, and adopting the principle of information exchange between various administrations to relieve the citizen from submitting the same documents more than once to the administration.
Furthermore, the effectiveness of justice requires accelerating the adjudication of cases, expanding alternatives for dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration, simplifying access to legal aid, and developing digital services for courts, while guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary and the rights of the defense.
Consequently, we envision in our party that achieving proximity development and the ambition of the social state requires political will and modern management. This must combine the rule of law, administrative efficacy, judicial independence, citizen participation, and accountability by results, as an entry point for rebuilding the citizen's trust in institutions.