Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party is putting corporate taxation at the center of its election pitch. Just weeks before the September 23 legislative vote, Energy Transition Minister and PAM political bureau member Leila Benali laid out on Thursday in Rabat how her party intends to pay for a campaign platform valued at 350 billion dirhams.
Speaking to PAM youth activists gathered in a Rabat-area constituency under the party’s « I Exist » outreach initiative, Benali argued that the next government must impose a levy on what she called « excessive profits » racked up by certain companies. « Firms that profit from crises should be taxed, which would let us fund direct support programs, » she told the crowd, adding that price caps should have been introduced as far back as 2015 through a tax overhaul curbing windfall gains for a handful of players.
Benali pushed back at any suggestion that PAM’s program was drafted casually. She insisted the platform draws directly on the governing experience of party ministers, many of whose proposals trace back to files they personally handled, and to the administrative obstacles that blocked reforms while they were in office.
On the long-running Samir refinery file, Benali reaffirmed her party’s pledge to bring the site’s storage tanks back into service. She noted her ministry had already issued a first operating license in 2023, conditioned on preventing any single energy company from monopolizing storage capacity and on guaranteeing safety for nearby residents.
The minister tied Morocco’s economic trajectory to the success of its energy transition, arguing the kingdom holds assets comparable to those of the European countries many Moroccan migrants travel to for work. She criticized bureaucratic delays slowing project rollout, citing an internal assessment that found Morocco lagging behind Turkey in execution speed.
Shifting from energy to healthcare and digitalization, Benali said it was « unacceptable, in the Morocco of 2030, » for pregnant women to still be dying in hospitals, and faulted layers of intermediaries she said continue to stall the country’s digital transition.
