Morocco’s new government has retained the million-job pledge Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) campaigned on in September, although the written program submitted to Parliament makes an important distinction between the jobs it intends to create and those it explicitly promises will be net additions to employment.
PAM’s electoral platform pledged at least one million net jobs by 2031. The government’s program, on page 130, promises approximately one million jobs, but applies the term “net” only to 250,000 industrial positions.
The remaining 750,000 are spread across 270,000 jobs in high-value outsourced services, 40,000 in sports, 80,000 young resident farmers and 360,000 positions associated with organizing the 2030 World Cup.
Those World Cup-related positions account for 36% of the government’s employment target, with activity expected across construction, services and other sectors before the tournament. The program does not specify how many will survive beyond 2030 or how they will be distinguished from positions counted under its separate sectoral commitments.
The agricultural figure raises a similar question: whether the 80,000 young farmers will represent new entrants to employment or include people already working in agriculture.
The High Commission for Planning recorded 193,000 net jobs created in 2025, even as agriculture lost 41,000 positions, illustrating how gains in one sector can be partially offset by losses elsewhere.
Mansouri’s program retains PAM’s target of reducing unemployment to 7% by 2031, alongside a commitment to increase women’s economic participation to 21.2%.
On Thursday, Parliament will vote on that program where Mansouri’s four-party coalition holds 207 of the chamber’s 395 seats, giving it a parliamentary majority ahead of the vote.
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