The Royal Speech 2025: Continuous Development and an Extended Hand… Despite “The Worst is Yet to Come!”
Every Throne Day, Moroccans await the royal speech as eagerly as a farmer awaits rain. However, this year’s address was not just a showcase of achievements but a calculated political response to two adversaries: an external opponent named “the stubbornness of the Algerian regime,” and an internal, hidden adversary known as “the purveyors of despair,” whose eternal motto is, “the worst is yet to come.” It seems Morocco’s fate is to navigate between the diplomacy of grudges and the publications of hopelessness.
For those still spreading illusions from military barracks, the King, with strategic patience, renewed his call for sincere dialogue with Algeria. The “extended hand” was neither a sign of weakness nor begging but the ethics of a responsible nation facing a diplomacy filled with grievances. While generals rush to purchase rusty weapons or finance fanatical voices against Morocco’s territorial integrity, even at the expense of Algeria’s wealth, which will sell gas to Italy at a third of its value in hopes of finding a narrow opening in the diplomatic wall surrounding Algeria, Morocco continues its high-speed train journey towards the future.
So, who is truly in isolation? Is it the one bound by free trade agreements with 3 billion consumers? Or is it the one who confines itself in a shell of pathological hostility? Where is the logic, then? Or is the “Moroccan obsession” only treatable in Algeria through evening news reports and distant lands?
I pose this question to the professionals who mourn the ruins and doubt everything. They are people who only see the hole in the wall, even if they live in a palace. Every project in their eyes is “waste,” and they need not be reminded of the skeptics regarding the Tangier-Rabat high-speed train, Moroccan football, and the efforts surrounding it. Talk about denial is the model—every achievement is merely a façade, and every advancement is a “media lie.”
But what does reality say? Industrial exports have doubled, Morocco has entered the club of high human development countries, multidimensional poverty has decreased, and significant projects are underway in energy, water, and technology fields.
Still, they chant: “the worst is yet to come,” as if they breathe pessimism and consume frustration for breakfast! And one might ask: if given the keys to power for a day, what would they do? Likely, they would organize a conference titled: “How to Demoralize a Nation in 24 Hours?” However, a state speech… does not resemble hashtags.
The royal speech does not respond with noise but with numbers, projects, and initiatives. It does not insult anyone but embarrasses everyone. It does not ride waves but creates currents.
It is a message to those abroad: “We do not need a visa to assert sovereignty over the Sahara,” and a message to those at home: “Development is not merely on maps but in the health of citizens, their access to clean water, jobs, and education.” It tells the despairing: “The future is not worse… but faster, stronger, and fairer.”
The state moves forward, institutions function, projects are completed, and the hand remains extended despite media bombardment and disruption. As for those living in the cave of “political regression,” endlessly echoing their favorite chant: “the worst is yet to come,” we say to them with biting irony: stay in your seat, behind your screen, for the future does not wait for spectators. The worst is yet to come, but… it will be worse for you and more daunting than your nightmares.
