Morocco's parliament gives new government confidence with 204 votes

Morocco's House of Representatives approved Prime Minister Fatima Zahra Mansouri's government program by 204 votes to 127. The four-party coalition is targeting annual growth of 5 percent and inflation of around 2 percent during 2027-2031.

Morocco's House of Representatives gave Prime Minister Fatima Zahra Mansouri's government a vote of confidence on Thursday, with 204 lawmakers voting in favor of the government program and 127 against it.

Under Morocco's Constitution, the government is considered formed after its program receives the absolute majority of the members of the House of Representatives. The program's debate featured heated exchanges between the majority and the opposition.

Morocco's King Mohammed VI had tasked Mansouri with forming the government on September 29, after her Authenticity and Modernity Party came first in the September 23 elections, winning 97 seats. Last Friday, he presided over a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Rabat to appoint the members of the government, which is led by a coalition of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, the Istiqlal Party, the Socialist Union and the Party of Progress and Socialism.

The government program aims to achieve annual economic growth of 5 percent, inflation of around 2 percent and a budget deficit of 3 percent during 2027-2031. It also seeks to increase the number of tourists to around 26 million by 2030, after Morocco received approximately 20 million foreign tourists in 2025.

The program includes increasing social assistance for low-income families from 500 to 1,000 dirhams by the end of 2031, raising the minimum pension to 3,000 dirhams and enabling widows to receive their full pension instead of the current 50 percent.

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