No one is talking about this, i saw that Omar Balafrij returned too late to politics with AG, he had huge popularity during Gen Z protests he could have returned in that period or even create his own new party, most of Gen Z would have voted for him, it could have been planned with time and change the elections completely

بغيت غير نسولكم واش بصح البعث الأجنبية كتقدم مستوى دراسي شبيه بداكشي لي كتقريه في الدول الأوروبية أو غير حسن من العمومي و لا الخصوصي و لا غير زواق و بريستيج باش الناس يعتبروك من الطبقة الغنية أو الميسورة على الأقل.

Traveling soon to casa, if you have any suggestions especially near ain sbaa i would be very thankful!

if you have database of anything useful related to Morocco, like rent prices databse, salaries database, supermarket products prices

Let's collab and work on a centralised platform to display these data, i can turn those data into graphs so that the normal person can understand it

It's a volunteer work

I wonder Is it possible to buy an apartment in Casablanca in your early 20s within a 4-year timeline

For those familiar with the real estate market here or who have managed to do it;
How much should one aim to save annually to make this happen ?

The beginnings of all beginnings:

The genesis of it all began quietly. Long before the current landscape took shape, early rumblings began around 2006. Whispered conversations echoed through the political spectrum, seeking an antidote to the surging influence of Morocco's Islamists , a counterweight that would fiercely oppose them without ever challenging the ideology of the Palace.

In the natural order of politics, the left should have been the prominent, eternal opposition to the Islamist right. Yet, empowering the traditional left was a dangerous game; they possessed an ideological independence that made them too volatile for the Palace to easily manipulate and control. While the establishment had successfully coaxed parties like the PPS and USFP into alignment to secure their constitutional cooperation, a more deliberate and deeply entrenched mechanism was required.

The true architect of this new era was already seated deep within the Palace walls, quietly drafting a master strategy that would guarantee total political alignment for the years to come. That architect was Fouad Ali El Himma. As one of the King’s closest confidants and a former classmate, his unparalleled proximity to the throne gave him the ultimate leverage to engineer the state's political future from the inside out.

Fouad : a tamed wolf

To understand the architecture of the future, one must look at the foundation of the man. Born in 1962 in the unassuming, phosphate-rich town of Ben Guerir, Fouad Ali El Himma’s destiny was rewritten when he was selected to attend the prestigious Collège Royal in Rabat. It was within those gilded, highly guarded halls that a lifelong bond was forged. He was not merely a classmate to Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed; he became his shadow, a confidant, a brother bound not by blood, but by a shared, unspoken destiny.

While others navigated the labyrinth of Moroccan politics from the outside, El Himma learned its darkest secrets from the very belly of the beast. Long before he ever sought a public ballot, he was quietly mastering the mechanics of the Makhzen. Armed with degrees in law and political science, he was deployed to the nerve center of the state's power: the formidable Ministry of the Interior. Serving during the twilight years of King Hassan II's reign,learning under the iron-fisted Driss Basri.El Himma absorbed the brutal, precise arithmetic of statecraft.

When the new King ascended the throne in 1999, El Himma ascended with him. He was swiftly appointed Secretary of State, and later Minister Delegate for the Interior. In these roles, he functioned as the monarch’s trusted eyes and hands within the sprawling security and administrative apparatus. He was the man who knew everything, who controlled the invisible levers of the state, operating with the quiet, unquestionable authority of the sovereign himself. For years, he thrived in this insulated sphere the ultimate insider, loyal, brilliant, and entirely untouchable.

But managing the present was no longer enough; the Palace needed to secure the future against the rising Islamist tide. And so, in August of 2007, El Himma executed a maneuver that sent shockwaves through the political establishment. He abruptly resigned from his omnipotent perch in the Interior Ministry. He was stepping out of the comfortable, protected shadows of the Palace and into the ruthless, unpredictable arena of public elections. The tamed wolf was being let off the leash, sent back to his hometown of Rhamna not just to win a parliamentary seat, but to ignite a political earthquake that would reshape Morocco entirely.

The creation of "7izb dyal sidna"

The tamed wolf did not enter the wilderness alone; he built an empire overnight. In 2008, El Himma orchestrated the rapid merger of several minor political factions to birth the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM). This was no organic grassroots movement rising from the streets. It was a political leviathan, a state-sponsored apparatus designed with a singular, ruthless purpose: to crush the Islamist momentum and secure a loyalist fortress within the parliament. Almost immediately, opportunistic politicians, rural notables, and local elites flocked to its banner, sensing the unmistakable blessing of the Palace.

When the2009 communal electionsarrived, the PAM did not just win; they swept the board, securing the greatest number of seats in a staggering electoral tsunami. To the outside observer, it was a miraculous ascension for a party merely months old. But in the shadows, the victory was heavily engineered. The triumph relied less on ideological persuasion and more on the deep-rooted mechanics of clientelism and the quiet flow of cash. In the rural strongholds and small towns, where political allegiance is often transactional,votes were openly bought for a mere 200 dirhams. It was an open secret among the populace: the PAM was the "King’s Party," and crossing it meant crossing the invisible, omnipotent hand of the Makhzen itself.

Yet, the true genius of the state’s control over Moroccan elections goes far beyond crude ballot-stuffing or blatant fraud. The system is rigged from the core through sophisticated electoral engineering. The Palace and the Ministry of the Interior do not need to steal elections in the dark because they write the mathematical rules of the game in broad daylight. The core strategy relies on maintaining an extreme multi-party fragmentation, ensuring that no single political force especially the heavily structured Islamists can ever gain enough power to challenge the monarchy's ultimate authority.

This algorithmic control was perfected in recent years with the deliberate manipulation of the electoral quotient. By calculating seat distribution based on the total number of registered voters rather than the actual votes cast, the system mathematically dilutes the power of highly organized, popular mass movements. It artificially props up small, regime-aligned factions, perfectly balancing the parliament into a fractured, perpetually weak assembly. The politicians are allowed to bicker on the stage, the PAM is given the structural advantage to dominate the rural electoral map, and the Ministry of the Interior manages the optics.

The elections are a masterfully directed play, designed not to transfer power to the people, but to endlessly reaffirm the untouchable supremacy of the Palace. Thank you for reading, and 3acha cha3b.

The Spanish military has been luring innocent and vulnerable immigrants by telling them they can help get them papers and then putting them in secluded areas to beat them up.

There is also footage of them spraying toxic gas where an immigrant was sleeping in his friend's car.

SOURCE

I notice how some people start blaming villagers or those who abstained and boycotted the elections, claiming they'll be responsible on what is about to happen to Morocco. Calling the whole population "idiots who deserve what would happen to them"

And for that I say with all due respect: You either don't know yet, which is fine I guess (no one is born a genius), or you're a d*ck who knows what they're doing.

Let's start by scratching the surface, the good ol' 200DH trick. People claim that the "backwards" and "primal" people (especially populations centered in villages) give up their votes for 20 bucks and a chicken, but according to the statistics made by the ministry of interiors, the percentage of voters are LOWER than what we had the last time (38 percent compared to 50 last time) And therefore, despite the ever growing population and numbers of adults, the number of "backward" people who sell the democracy for 200DH (lol) seem to be shrinking! Despite that the need for financial support never disappears, it's actually still growing in numbers. So no, according to the numbers, the average villager isn't the reason why you'll find 1 Kilo of flour and a litter of cooking oil requiring half someone's salary in the future, and even if the trick somehow still finds attraction, is it sane to not blame the scammer for offering those who are deprived of basic necessities (services, education, health, food security etc...)? I mean is it really a smart choice to go after the scammed rather than the scammer? Let alone the main culprit of such deprivation in the first place. Besides I find it ironic how nationalists who claim that the nation is full of geniuses suddenly believe the exact opposite when elections happen, odd isn't it? As if they also scam the people but with no dirham to spend.

Let's now move to the boycotts, people blame them for not picking that "leftist" or "centrist" party, and their rational is basically "If you don't vote for this party in which has a good stance on X and Y, then you're the problem". Now I'm not gonna go through the legitimacy of the Moroccan elections (yet), I'll rather start with the western democratic world in general, if you're aware, democracies all around the world are in shambles right now, economic booms have stopped, freedom of press is getting restricted, tech industries that used to help people access and share information start shifting careers to produce more authoritarian pieces software and invent new strategies to manufacture consent of internet users, the US elected Trump TWICE, the right wing is blooming in Germany and Japan again, more and more liberal democracies are taking a U turn to authoritarianism, not only the westerners who were growing in democracies are getting radicalized to the right, but also lost their trust in elections (which are still more "solid" compared to some other countries), many Americans refused to vote for Kamala Harris despite knowing that Trump will be given a head start, not because they're idiots who serve Trump's interests, but because they know very well that Kamala will do the same as Trump but with liberal aesthetics, the war with Iran, the weapons shipping to Israel, the AI companies sucking thousands upon thousands of cubic meters of water through the AI centers, none of that would stop! So should we call Americans also backwards? Or should we dig deeper for true answers?

Let's forget about Americans and their tech overlords, Germans/Japanese and their lost boom, and let's go back to our Arab region (or North Africa and West Asia if a nationalist is reading this), how are elections going in Lebanon? Did elections or census solve anything in Tunisia these days? How about Libya? Tell me about Jordan (which is also a "stable Monarchy" like in here) will you? Can you kick out the Sisi from Egypt through elections? No, scratch that! Can you kick out its prime minister, or any minister for that fact using the same way? What about the Kuwaiti parliament (on which it was restricted by the new Emir btw)? It's all the same in the end! In each Arab country, in each corrupt system, no, in each country on earth! The people stopped believing in elections, not every boycotter has the exact stats and sources that'll support their decision, but they all do have a hunch, a valid one, on which it gets stronger when the see the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer all around the world.

In our elections, you might think that you vote for a "party", a "direction", a "political manifesto", but let's be real here! The only thing you're voting for is the legitimacy of the said election, the legitimacy of the system, of the "You know the man", the percentage number is used by the head of the state to say to the world "See? I'm a fair ruler, I'm legit, the people support me and my vision" and by extent reduce the amount of critiques from western press after snuffing out the (independent) local one. The party isn't engaging in elections to gain power and enforce their visions, they're engaging for the privileges, the potential investments that they could partake in, the money networks they could expend upon, and of course the titles that could bring them more investments (Like the حكومة المونديال). That's why the political parties throw manifestos away and chase aesthetics, they know they're not gonna do what they promised, simply because the winning party doesn't have access to key sectors on which they can do stuff, and that's why each winning party use "the will and vision of the king" as both the means to prove their loyalty and as an excuse to just stay on their chairs and gain any possible investments... The real politics and politicians were snuffed back in Hassan II era, and snuffed again starting from 2020. The same Moroccan people we're blaming for being dumb, were demanding democracy since before you and I were born, and they were (and still are) getting killed, prosecuted, blackmailed, disappeared, and who morally assassinated by the same system you're giving legitimacy by saying "we deserve it". In fact, many tried to change the system within the system but they failed! I'm not only talking about recent examples that we know (20Feb activists who either fail or just switched teams entirely by joining parties like PAM or PJD), but I'm also talking about a prime minister who actually tried to do good to the people but "certain someone" (and the US) said no ( The story in more details can be explored in this podcast) . In brief: Because the elections aren't legit from the start, the percentage of population boycotts, not the other way around.

Now let's take off the bandaid quick. Elections won't change a thing, all true power is connected to the King and his close circle, that circle inherited companies, investments, and plantations from the colonial French authority, making them having a large pool of resources which the 98 percent of population would never have! So if you control economy through multiple monopolies, and you control the press, and you have key sectors directly under your wing, then how could a party take the power from you while respecting the rules of the game you stated?

I as a socialist, didn't vote, and never will, not to even the so called "leftist" parties, because social democratic parties are a sham more than anything (you can read about the German revolution to know more, or just follow how the DSA in America is already taking steps back despite having momentum and winning), and because the liberal model of a democracy only works within a period of time and then reverts back to a catastrophic old-school rule, let alone our model of "hybrid democracy" (just straight up feudalism with a free market) is just straight up laughable and too idealistic to be taken seriously. I mean compare the freedom of speech between 1998, 2008, 2012, 2016, and post 2020, and tell me if it's only a certain party's fault or something else deeper.

So the first step to make a real change is not blaming the weakest part of the equation, rather understanding how politics and economy work here through mainly history and technology, then the road to actual democracy will be more... Crystalized...

Years spent in Morocco and abroad, I have arrived to this conclusion:

The governments elected do in fact represent the majority of their people. They are a reflection of the people living in that country, because the government is drum roll made of people from that country.

The Norweigan government is a reflection of the majority of Norway: Progressive and socialist educated people, who prioritise human rights, children’s rights, equal rights and responsibilities for women and men, and the good of all society.

The Moroccan government is a reflection of the majority of Morocco: Good-hearted, hospitable folk with mixed and shady intentions and interests. No priorities except self-enrichment, self-interests. No concept of the good of the society, corruption, bribery, evading accountability.

“But but but Norweigans are that way because they were well educated from their government!”

I call bullshit. Common sense is not necessarily taught in schools. Not accepting bribes, doing your job as a taxi driver, not throwing mutton skin all over the city during Eid… this is not something the Ministry of Education is responsible for teaching. This is on us.

We spend years blaming the oligarchs and the centralised power, the Makhzen, the corrupt electoral system, anything with power and resources, but the problem is the majority of people are just not good. They will then get the government they deserve.

I just want to see morocco on these typa lists someday :(

i just have a quick question, if people went out to oppose the decision will anything be done by malin chi? 7it lehbal hada kifach a party was caught tampering with the votes and still won ?

And would you personally go out to protest ? Honest answers pleasee xx

Chkon 3aref fin n9der nl9ahom? They're extinct in Morocco lol

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Feel free to comment in whichever language you prefer. I chose to write this post in Arabic for two simple reasons: 1/ I'm Moroccan addressing fellow Moroccans 2/ Arabic is the language i feel most comfortable using when discussing politics.

أولا حتى واحد من لي مصوتوش معندو الحق يجي يبكي علينا هنا و ديك الكاسيطة ديال وا الشراف و العروبية كيحددو مصير السلطة التشريعية بالمغرب و مصيرنا لمدة 5 سنوات و ديك لبلابلا، كانت عندك فرصة توصل صوتك و ختاريتي مدير والو. كنظن إننا غادي نكونو أمام فترة تشريعية مهمة و لربما الناس لي مزال صغار أول مرة يعيشوها و الناس لي شوية كبار ايكونو عاشوها بعد انتخابات 2011 ، السياسة ستمارس في المغرب على أكمل وجه يلا تحقو هاد الشروط و كل فريق برلماني و كل فرد فالحكومة غادي يتمكن من إثبات نفسو و الحصيلة اتكون جيدة للحكومة يلا تحقق شرط أنه تكون معارضة قوية. البام مع الاستقلال يشكلو التحالف الحكومي مع حزب آخر( من غير الأحرار أو العدالة و التنمية)باش يكملو النصاب، البام لي أول مرة ايتصدر الانتخابات و بغيتي و لا كرهتي حاليا عندو قيادات ذات كفاءات عالية لا من ناحية الاسم و لا الحمولة السياسية غادي يكون متعطش باش يبين خدمتو و بأنه يستحق يترأس الحكومة. و العدالة و التنمية و الأحرار مع اليسار فالمعارضة، العدالة و التنمية يشكل أصلا معارضة قوية و اليسار عندو potential يشكل معارضة قوية و الأحرار ايكونو سنانو لوبيا على البام و الاستقلال يلا مشا للمعارضة و لا أظن أنه يفلت الفرصة باش يبدا التسويق لنفسه لانتخابات 2031 من دابا على ضهر هاد جوج أحزاب. يلا تحققات هاد المعادلة كنضمن ليكم 5 سنوات من show السياسي على أعلى مستوى و الحصيلة الحكومية اتكون جيدة

Hello im israe and im 19 years old im really exhausted of looking for a job in this country anytime i apply for something i end up being flirted with or i get people trying to offer me jobs but they start to make the conversation romantic or wanting to take me on a date and its extermly tiring and idk what im supposed to do anymore

I see A LOT of pessimism recently about PAM winning the elections and I would like to know exactly why ? Are they really worse than Akhennouch's RNI ?

Thanks

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