The Speaker of the PAM Parliament, Najwa Kakkous, stated that the Authenticity Party has taken on the challenge of engaging in politics in a different way, “We are moving steadily toward meeting this challenge. Our goal is to restore confidence in political work and to restore hope among young people, women, and all citizens in the political process, with its values of sacrifice, selflessness, and service to the public good.”
The same spokesperson added, “Our alternative approach to politics was intended to make the political, electoral, and institutional public sphere an open forum for all the dynamic forces in our country, who found in the Authenticity and Modernity Party a collective response to their hopes and aspirations for a Morocco where true citizenship prevails, something that would not have been achieved without the significant involvement of our party’s activists, at all levels, in strengthening the democratic and modernist path.”
"A responsible and conscious commitment—one that stems from a firm conviction, unshaken by malicious campaigns or misleading rumors," said the Speaker of the PAM Parliament. "Our party’s political and social project will only grow stronger and more deeply rooted in all sectors of Moroccan society, and across the party’s various branches, armed with strict rules regarding discipline and conduct. The Authenticity and Modernity Party’s Code of Ethics, as a reference document alongside its Constitution and Internal Regulations, contains binding provisions, as explicitly stated in Article 31 of the Code, embodies a firm political will to shape public political life, transcending individuals and personal interests.
Kakos addressed the members of the National Council, saying, “We will continue to defend our party’s modern democratic project with all our strength and resolve, in the service of our citizens, despite the harassment of our opponents who seek to undermine our party’s project—indeed, some have even declared it over— but these are merely daydreams that will never come true for them. For the more intense the campaigns targeting the party and its symbols become—under the guise of exercising freedom of opinion and expression, which it is entirely innocent of—the more certain you can be that we are on the right path. The exercise of freedom of opinion and expression, guaranteed by the international conventions ratified by the Kingdom, and by its Constitution, which is considered the supreme legal document, does not mean insulting people, attacking their honor and reputation, defaming them, lying about them, or making false accusations against them without any evidence.
Kakous noted that the political and social agenda of the Authenticity and Modernity Party makes achieving full equality between women and men a top priority and attaches the utmost importance to this issue, This comes amid the societal debate our country has witnessed following the launch of the workshops to revise the Family Code, as we look forward to the binding legal provisions that this process will yield, which will ensure effective equality and address the various challenges facing the different components of the Moroccan family.
The President of the National Council went on to emphasize the strong commitment of Council members and all activists to implementing our party’s political and social agenda, as evidenced by the organizational dynamism our party has demonstrated during the period between the two sessions of the National Council, during which the National Council Secretariat promptly convened a meeting on May 20 of this year to incorporate comments related to proposals regarding the internal regulations and the code of ethics; a meeting was also scheduled to establish the functional and thematic committees.
The Secretariat of the National Council also held a meeting with the presidents of the regional councils as part of its ongoing communication efforts aimed at finalizing the structures of the functional committees and the Regional Arbitration and Ethics Committee, and another meeting with the chairs and rapporteurs of the thematic and functional committees established to broaden the participation of activists and the diverse talents of Moroccan society, in order to prepare their work program, begin implementing it, and produce various papers and literature to be utilized in local, regional, and national electoral and political practice.
Sala/ Edited by: Murad Benali - Photography by: Yassin Al-Zahrawi
