The social state: purchasing power, health and housing commitments

Making the social state tangible in Moroccans’ daily lives: that is the ambition the PAM placed at the heart of its 2027-2031 programme. Incomes, pensions, direct support, health and housing: here are the main commitments presented to voters ahead of the legislative elections of 23 September 2026.

Effects everyone should feel

In an interview with MAP published on 21 September 2026, she summed up her view of the social state:

“For the PAM, the social state must not be a theoretical notion; rather, citizens must feel its effects in their lives.”

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, interview with MAP, 21 September 2026 (translated from French)

In the same interview, she tied this ambition to the strength of the economy: “A social policy cannot be financed without a solid economy, sustainable wealth creation and job opportunities” (translated from French). The programme follows that logic. Of an additional cost estimated at around MAD 350 billion over five years, MAD 300 billion is expected from the effect of growth and a broader tax base, with a target of 5% average annual growth over 2027-2031. The overall framework is set out in the article on the 2027-2031 programme.

Purchasing power, the first priority

With MAD 150 billion, the Purchasing Power Charter is the best-funded part of the programme, and the PAM put it at the top of its commitments during the campaign, notably at a meeting in Tangier on 16 September 2026. It acts on both incomes and prices:

• any monthly electricity bill below 100 dirhams becomes free, with no further conditions and no paperwork;
• income tax on wages cut from six brackets to three: 0% on gross pay below MAD 15,000, 10% between MAD 15,000 and MAD 46,000, and 20% above;
• no pension, under any scheme, below MAD 3,000 a month from the second year of the term;
• widows’ pensions raised to 100% of the deceased’s pension, up from 50% today;
• the monthly floor of direct social support raised gradually from MAD 500 to MAD 1,000, with targeting based on real income.

To bring staple prices back to normal levels, the programme also plans six regional agricultural distribution companies (Souss, Tadla, Gharb, Loukkos, Doukkala-Abda and Oriental) to reduce the number of middlemen between producers and retailers, along with modernised wholesale markets.

Health, a pillar of citizenship

The Citizenship Charter, with MAD 100 billion, devotes a strand to a competitive public hospital. It provides for:

• 100% health coverage;
• specialist cover around the clock in maternity and gynaecology units;
• four new regional university hospitals before the end of 2028, in Beni Mellal, Guelmim, Errachidia and Casablanca;
• the upgrading of 1,600 primary health centres and 90 hospitals.

Decent housing for 500,000 households

As the minister responsible, among other portfolios, for housing from 2021 to 2026, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri made housing a central strand of the social state. The programme aims for 500,000 households to reach decent housing over the term, through several levers:

• continuing the housing-support programme to reach 300,000 beneficiaries;
• 100,000 homes in integrated rural centres, with household support of up to MAD 40,000;
• rehabilitating 20,000 buildings in the old medinas;
• a progressive tax on undeveloped urban land and a framework law restoring the balance between landlords and tenants.

This commitment builds on a scheme run by the Housing Ministry: direct housing aid, in force since 2 January 2024, had more than 108,000 beneficiaries by June 2026. The scheme pays MAD 100,000 towards a home costing up to MAD 300,000 including VAT, and MAD 70,000 for a home priced between MAD 300,000 and MAD 700,000.

From programme to government action

These commitments form the programme on which the PAM campaigned. Appointed Head of Government on 29 September 2026, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri has been charged with forming the new government, whose programme will be presented to both chambers of Parliament. The stated goal remains the one she set out a few days before the vote: that every citizen should feel the effects of the social state in their daily life.

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