“Conscience Movement” Exposes the Crumbling Moroccan Political System: A Crisis of Legitimacy, Entrenched Corruption, and a Model That Has Expired
✍️ BY: Dr. Hana Saada
Algiers – November 2025 – Morocco’s political decay has finally been diagnosed not by foreign analysts, leaked reports, or regional observers, but from within Rabat itself. The “Conscience Movement” has issued a political memorandum that reads like an official death certificate for an entire model of governance. What the movement states openly may be familiar to Algerian readers, yet it lands as a seismic shock inside Morocco—a society long conditioned by the Makhzen’s media to believe in the illusion of a “flourishing democracy” and “dynamic political parties.” The document, however, strips away this façade, revealing a scorched political field overrun by corrupt financial networks, illegitimate party leaders, and a political culture so degraded that even state propaganda can no longer mask its fractures.
The movement’s findings are unflinching: Moroccan parties are managed with archaic mentalities, devoid of internal democracy and overrun by untrustworthy figures engineered by circles of money and influence. Elections, far from being democratic exercises, have devolved into open auctions where endorsements are sold, votes are purchased, and outcomes are choreographed before polling stations even open. As for the current government—exalted daily by official media—it is, as the memorandum asserts, “exceptionally lucky,” having inherited pre-prepared projects and unprecedented financial resources unseen in two decades, only to squander them without leaving a single positive imprint on citizens’ lives.
Its accumulated failures have triggered waves of protests across multiple sectors: teachers, doctors, lawyers, and entire regions have risen against a system incapable of managing even its most basic responsibilities. The widening social rupture has exposed how futile it is for authorities to rely on improvised field visits or symbolic gestures—such as unveiling equipment that had been gathering dust in storage—to pacify an increasingly disillusioned public.
Yet the movement goes further, declaring unequivocally that the crisis is not administrative but existential. The political model itself has collapsed. Its promises have expired, its leaders have lost legitimacy, and its institutions no longer command even minimal trust. The Moroccan citizen, as the document underscores, can no longer believe in elites who contributed to the degradation of political life and stripped it of dignity. Under such conditions, the very notion of building a democratic system becomes illusory.
The “Conscience Movement” proposes a rupture with behaviors normalized by the Makhzen over decades: genuine independence for political actors, moralization of public life, and a radical overhaul of electoral laws. The mere fact that such proposals are being raised signals the magnitude of institutional decay—these are not reforms for a functioning system, but emergency prescriptions for a polity on the verge of total paralysis.
Perhaps the most striking element is the movement’s call to reinforce the “neutrality of the monarchy,” an implicit acknowledgment that the royal institution itself is increasingly perceived as part of the problem. The instrumentalization of the king’s persona in political conflicts has reached a level that even insiders now deem unjustifiable and untenable. The memorandum touches other long-taboo subjects: the fusion of power and wealth, the hereditary transmission of party leadership, and the dominance of opaque networks shielded from any form of oversight or accountability.
What “Conscience” articulates today echoes what Algeria has long asserted: that Morocco’s political model is obsolete, unsustainable, and structurally incapable of producing democracy, stability, or genuine popular legitimacy. While Algeria has embarked on institutional reform, battled entrenched corruption, and reinforced popular sovereignty, Morocco—by its own admission—continues to recycle a failing system without addressing its foundational defects.
The memorandum is not a technical document—it is a cry from within, a declaration that Morocco faces a real crisis of legitimacy, and that its citizens refuse to remain passive spectators in a political theater scripted from above. It marks a moment of reckoning, one the Makhzen is least prepared to confront. But the truth has now surfaced from the heart of the Moroccan scene itself—and no amount of censorship, propaganda, or symbolic gestures can force it back into silence.
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