Youth Disillusionment Threatens Morocco's Electoral Turnout

In Morocco, a generation shaped by unemployment, failing public services, and the desperate calculus of border crossings now stands at a quieter but equally consequential threshold: the decision of whether to vote. The anger that drove young Moroccans into the streets and toward the fences at Ceuta has not disappeared — it has turned inward, toward a skepticism of formal politics that may prove as consequential as any protest. As elections approach, the question is whether a society can afford the silence of those whose grievances it has yet to answer.