Video: Why the Opposition Voted Against El Mansouri’s Government — Akacha Defends RNI Record, Azami Invokes Widows’ Support Fund, and Sentissi & Benjelloun Demand 5,000 DH Minimum Wage and Justice Reforms

FesNews Media – Rabat: Countering the governing coalition, leaders and representatives of the parliamentary opposition in the House of Representatives—the National Rally of Independents (RNI), Justice and Development (PJD), the Haraki Group, and the Left Alliance Parliamentary Caucus—set out their arguments for voting against the Government Program during the confidence sitting.

Yassine Akacha Announces RNI Opposition Vote and Defends Previous Five-Year Record

Speaking for the National Rally of Independents (RNI), deputy Yassine Akacha expressed pride in the achievements of the outgoing government over the past five years, including social protection reforms and the mobilization of Moroccan diaspora talent, affirming that his party does not fear moving to the opposition benches and will exercise constructive, patriotic scrutiny.

Driss El Azami El Idrissi Defends Widows’ Support Fund and February 20 Stance in PJD No-Vote

Justice and Development Party (PJD) parliamentary leader Driss El Azami El Idrissi used his vote-explanation address to reply to the Prime Minister, recalling his party’s historic role during the February 20, 2011 movement in championing reform within stability, defending its record on the widows’ support fund and electoral quotient debate, and announcing a vote against the Government Program.

Driss Sentissi Explains Haraki Group Rejection Over Rural Debt Relief, Fuel Caps, and 5,000 DH Minimum Wage

Haraki Group President Driss Sentissi justified his group’s negative vote by arguing that the Government Program lacks cross-sectoral coherence and concrete emergency mechanisms for natural disasters, pointing to the absence of debt relief for small farmers, the failure to repeal the 45-year age cap for teaching recruitment, the lack of fuel price caps, and the absence of a commitment to raise the minimum wage (SMIG) to 5,000 dirhams.

Omar Mahmoud Benjelloun Announces Left Alliance Rejection Over Judicial Laws and Official Languages

On behalf of the Left Alliance Parliamentary Caucus, deputy Omar Mahmoud Benjelloun declared a vote against the Government Program, criticizing what he described as continuity in justice sector legislation—particularly the Civil and Criminal Procedure Codes and the legal profession bill—while calling on the government to strictly uphold both official languages, Arabic and Amazigh, in official communications.