Driss Lachgar (First Secretary of Morocco's USFP — the Socialist Union of Popular Forces) — speech at the Socialist International conference, Rabat, 21 Dec 2024 (Al-Omk): social-democratic values of "justice, equality and human solidarity" as "effective tools for building a more balanced society and a more equitable world," and support for Palestinian self-determination and an independent state under international law.

قيم العدالة والمساواة والتضامن الإنساني ليست فقط غايات نطمح إلى تحقيقها، بل أدوات فعالة لبناء مجتمع أكثر توازنًا وعالم أكثر إنصافًا

إن الشعب الفلسطيني لا يطالب بأكثر من حقوقه الطبيعية التي تضمنها الشرعية الدولية، وفي مقدمتها الحق في تقرير المصير وإقامة دولته المستقلة

[Source is Arabic (Al-Omk Al-Maghribi), quoting his speech; the stored passages are the verbatim quoted segments, confirmed against the fetched page.] English of the segments: — "the values of justice, equality and human solidarity are not only goals we aspire to achieve, but effective tools for building a more balanced society and a more equitable world"; — "the Palestinian people demand no more than their natural rights guaranteed by international legitimacy, foremost the right to self-determination and to establish their independent state." CONTEXT: Declared positions of Driss Lachgar — First Secretary (leader) of the Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires (USFP), Morocco's historic social-democratic party and a member of the Socialist International. From his speech at a Socialist International conference in Rabat, 21 December 2024. He articulates a SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC creed (justice, equality, human solidarity; reducing social and economic disparities; human-centred development) and an internationalist, two-state pro-Palestinian position (self-determination and an independent state, backing the ICJ advisory opinion on the occupation and immediate recognition of Palestine). Notably the same speech is markedly LOYALIST toward the Moroccan monarchy — praising Morocco as a "model" of democratic choice, its development projects, and its position on the Western Sahara — reflecting the USFP's evolution into a regime-cooperating, "administrative" left rather than an opposition force. This is the Maghreb SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC pole — secular, redistributive, internationalist — an economic-left strand under-represented elsewhere in the dataset. [Axes: economic (social democracy / redistribution / reducing inequality), palestinian-question (two-state via international law / self-determination), democracy, religion-state (secular / civil-state tradition), regime-stance (monarchy-loyalist "administrative" left).]