Secretary-General of the Party — Party of Unity and Democracy

Abdelmalek Dahchour

Secretary-General of the Party

A Word from the Secretary-General

Under Article 15 of the statutes, the Secretary-General is elected by the General National Congress from among outgoing Political Bureau members, and must hold respected political credentials and an advanced university degree.

The Secretary-General oversees the implementation of decisions from the congress, the Political Bureau, and the National Council, and represents the party before all authorities, courts, and external bodies.

Dr. Abdelmalek Dahchour holds a Ph.D. and serves as Head of Department in the Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences at the Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II in Rabat. Over a research career spanning several decades, he has authored more than seventy scientific publications on environmental science, water and wastewater treatment, soil and pesticide science, solid waste management, and the circular economy in Morocco — expertise in sustainable development and environmental policy he now brings to his leadership of the Party of Unity and Democracy.

"The Party of Unity and Democracy has placed great importance on grasping the global and national intellectual and political shifts that have profoundly shaped the concept of the political party in our era. In our view, the party is no longer merely a seasonal electoral machine, but has become an intellectual laboratory for producing alternatives and solutions, a space suited to bringing in women, youth, and Morocco's collective intelligence, and capable of serving as a mediating channel skilled in reading and guiding street movements — particularly unorganized protests — at a time when the gap between society and institutions keeps widening, as reflected in the phenomenon of voter abstention that election profiteers exploit. This represents significant scope for restoring the political party's structuring role in society."