As the 2026 legislative elections approach, the leaders of the PAM and Istiqlal parties, allies of the RNI which leads the current government, are expressing their ambitions to win this election and access the prime ministership.
The first warm-ups for the next legislative elections have already begun. The coordinator of the collective leadership of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), Fatima-Zahra El Mansouri and the secretary general of the Istiqlal party, Nizar Baraka, have already announced the color and explicitly expressed their intentions, during recent meetings of their groups, to lead the next government.
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The coordinator of the collective leadership of the PAM, Fatima-Zahra El Mansouri, says that the objective of her training is to lead the next government. During a meeting held Friday in Marrakech with PAM figures from the Marrakech-Safi region, she stressed that preparations for the next legislative elections have begun and that her party’s main objective is to come first in these elections. .
A week earlier, the leader of the PAM had told ambassadors of the Diplomatic Circle and representatives of international organizations accredited to the Kingdom of Morocco, during a conference organized by the Diplomatic Foundation, that she was optimistic about the chances of her party to come out on top in the next elections. She also emphasized the importance of the next legislative elections in the history of the Kingdom and the need to organize them on the basis of clear and concrete electoral programs.
-Nizar Baraka: “it is time for Istiqlal to take back the head of government”
The secretary general of the Istiqlal party has no less ambition than El Mansouri to lead the next government. During the recent partisan meeting in Larache, his electoral constituency, Baraka once again affirmed that the Libra party aims to establish itself at the head of the Moroccan political scene, with the primary objective of winning the legislative elections of 2026. And To achieve this, the SG of the PI is particularly focusing on the mobilization of young people through a “social contract” based on four fundamental pillars: education, employment, health and political participation, as he has explained during a meeting, organized on Saturday January 11 in Casablanca, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Independence Manifesto.
Nizar Baraka’s speech at this meeting raised some concerns regarding the unemployment rate, especially among young people, and the decline of the middle class, which led many observers to wonder if he was not beginning to adopt oppositional behavior and to question the solidity of the government coalition. To these remarks, the government spokesperson, Mustapha Baitas, reacted during the last press briefing following the Governing Council by declaring that there is no divergence within the government coalition.
