Youth: from Jeel 2030 to “A horizon for every young person”

Winning back young people’s trust and offering them a clear path from school to work: youth sits at the heart of the PAM’s political project, which devotes one of the five charters of its 2027-2031 programme to it. From the Jeel 2030 platform, launched in March 2025, to the “A horizon for every young person” charter in the 2027-2031 programme, this priority has been built step by step.

Regaining young people’s trust

The programme the PAM presented in September 2026 starts from a clear diagnosis: 2.9 million young people are not in education, employment or training, and unemployment stands at 29.2% among 15 to 24-year-olds. For Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, the issue goes beyond jobs alone: it also concerns the bond between young people and public life.

The day after the legislative elections of 23 September 2026, at a press conference in Rabat, she set out the goal:

“We will work to narrow this gap and give priority to our youth, in order to regain young people’s trust in politics.”

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, press conference, Rabat, 24 September 2026 (translated from French)

Jeel 2030, a space for dialogue

Under her coordination, since the collegial leadership was set up in February 2024, the PAM has stepped up initiatives aimed at young people. From 19 to 21 September 2024 in Bouznika, the party’s first Summer University, held under the slogan “A renewed contract for dignity and hope” (translated from Arabic), included youth employment and youth engagement among its themes, alongside water scarcity, identity and digital technology.

On 4 March 2025, at the Mohammed V Theatre in Rabat, the party launched “Jeel 2030” (Generation 2030) before about 500 young people: a national platform for dialogue with youth, presented by the three members of its collegial leadership. It rests on three tools: a website, jeel2030.org, regional meetings and workshops. The initiative aims to encourage young people to engage in politics.

“A horizon for every young person”

In the programme presented on 1 September 2026, the Youth Integration Charter is allocated MAD 50 billion. It aims to make the next term the term of youth, reaching around one million young people. Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri explained its rationale in an interview with MAP:

“One cannot imagine a project for the Morocco of the future if some young people are not in school, do not receive training or are not integrated into the working world. We believe that young people deserve a clear pathway that begins with education, continues through training and access to the job market, before building an independent life and living with dignity.”

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

The pathway gives priority to the children of families receiving direct social support, with the aim of turning social support from a safety net into a bridge to employment. The charter’s main commitments:

• a national pathway for 18 to 29-year-olds not in education, employment or training, reaching around 300,000 young people a year at full capacity;
• zero school dropout without an alternative, moving towards guaranteed education or training up to the age of 18;
• 150,000 to 200,000 places a year in vocational training and apprenticeships, and a “Skills 2030” programme for around 500,000 people;
• a “first job contract” for 500,000 young people over five years, and support for around 60,000 youth-led businesses;
• around 125,000 legal international mobility opportunities and a decent-work charter;
• a public rent-guarantee fund and 100,000 housing solutions for young people between 2027 and 2031.

A long-held conviction

This focus on young people is not new. Elected in 2009 as Marrakech’s first woman mayor, she was already telling TIME magazine in January 2013, when discussing sports facilities for the city’s young people: “These youth come out of school and have nothing to do. Those are the hours we have to work on.”

Thirteen years later, that concern has become one of the five charters of the programme the PAM took into the elections. Appointed Head of Government on 29 September 2026 and charged with forming the new government, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri is to present the government programme to Parliament once the government is formed. All of the party’s commitments are set out in the article on the 2027-2031 programme.

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