Abdelatif Wahbi, Secretary-General of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), said during the regional outreach meeting for PAM women in the Draa-Tafilalet region, held today, Saturday, July 18, 2022, in the city of Ouarzazate, that this event is part of a series of outreach meetings held by the party leadership with PAM women, which have been marked by significant successes in several regions.
Wahbi added, in a speech read on his behalf by Fatima Al-Saadi, a member of the Political Bureau and Deputy Secretary-General of the party, “The most recent of these meetings was the important PAM women’s gathering held by the party leadership with female activists from the Guelmim-Oued Noun region, a region dear to our hearts, during which the PAM women activists demonstrated their great political awareness and deep commitment to their party’s organization, despite the failed attempts by certain political parties outside the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) to maliciously disrupt this important meeting, which the party’s General Secretariat was unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances.”
On this occasion, the Secretary-General praised the strong commitment of the region’s activists to the party organization, announcing that the party had adopted the profound and meaningful recommendations issued by this meeting, aimed at fostering ongoing dialogue with the party leadership, as well as other messages conveyed by this distinguished gathering, through which the activists of the Guelmim-Oued Noun region refuted all rumors undermining the unity of the PAM ranks and successfully thwarted the efforts of the party’s enemies lying in wait for it in the region and throughout the country.
In this context, Wahbi also highly commended the meeting in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region and all the PAM women’s meetings held in other regions, notably those in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, the Casablanca-Settat region, the Marrakech-Safi region, the Fès-Meknès region, the Souss-Massa region, and the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region. He emphasized that today’s meeting aims to discuss the most effective ways to establish an active and independent women’s party framework—a hub for generating ideas that strengthen women’s presence across various fields, a force for advocating and upholding values that advance the rights of Moroccan women, and a platform for developing viable solutions, following a courageous and objective analysis of past associative and party experiences, which will assist the party—as a modernist movement—in developing possible legal, institutional, and programmatic solutions, naturally within the framework of respect for national principles and the competencies of constitutional institutions, and in close partnership and cooperation with various actors and dynamic forces in society.
The same spokesperson went on to say that “This meeting is taking place at a delicate moment both nationally and internationally, marked by increased economic pressures, constraints, and social difficulties resulting from the alarming rise in the prices of basic commodities on the international market. Despite the tremendous and exceptional efforts made by the government to limit the repercussions of this on the social situation and citizens’ purchasing power, their severity continues to affect the daily lives of citizens, which requires us, as a responsible party, to make further sacrifices and strive harder, to be creative in finding solutions, and to contribute from our various positions to alleviating these difficulties for citizens.”
Wahbi added, “We are aware today that women in the Draa-Tafilalet region and other vulnerable areas suffer from exclusion, marginalization, and varying degrees of deprivation when it comes to the conditions necessary for a decent life,” noting that “if Moroccan women have endured what they have in recent years under normal economic and social conditions, let us imagine what lies ahead in light of these external and internal economic and social difficulties, which will cost them even more as they pay the price for our failure to reduce these development gaps, to overcome patriarchal culture, and to break the many cultural and intellectual taboos and idols, as well as the miserable customs that have no connection to human legislation or the law of God, and which will not tolerate or accept the worsening of the highest rates of poverty and vulnerability among Moroccan women, the highest illiteracy rates, and the violence, marginalization, and exclusion from the most basic rights—foremost among them the right to education and health.”
Ouarzazate: Sara Al-Ramshi/Al-Mustafa Jawhar
