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Morocco
How football powerbroker, Fouzi Lekjaâ, has emerged as a contender as PM

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Fouzi Lekjaâ, President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation and Minister of State for the Budget, in Salé, Morocco, in July 2025.
Fouzi Lekjaâ, President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation and Minister of State for the Budget, in Salé, Morocco, in July 2025. © Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP

Long celebrated as a self-made workhorse, the boss of Moroccan football has spent decades methodically building the political and institutional networks that now make him one of the strongest contenders to lead the country's next government.

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