Popular Movement pledges 1,000 dirhams for unemployed graduates and to scrap the 30-year teaching age limit

Mohamed Ouzzine has promised unemployed Moroccans with higher-education degrees a monthly payment of 1,000 dirhams for one year. The Popular Movement secretary-general said the measure would support graduates whose circumstances prevent them from travelling to look for work.

Ouzzine presented the party’s election program on Saturday evening, describing it as a response to a range of social and economic demands. The program also pledges to establish Saturday as an official public holiday in Morocco.

In education, the Popular Movement says it would restore free public higher education, criticizing the abandonment of that principle. It also promises to raise university grants and pay them monthly, although it did not specify the new amount.

The program further calls for the creation of university branches and institutions that had been planned during the 2017-2021 government term, when Said Amzazi oversaw the project. Ouzzine said the initiative had not been completed as originally planned. The party also pledged to remove the 30-year age requirement for entering the teaching profession.