The ascent of Ahmed Touizi, a leader in the Authenticity and Modernity Party, to the presidency of the new Moroccan House of Representatives in October 2026, represents the inauguration of a new political phase that follows the restructuring of the majority and the opposition in the Kingdom.
His assumption of the management of the First Chamber comes as a direct translation of the results of the legislative vote and the balance of partisan power within Parliament, placing his path extending between the education sector and the management of local and regional affairs under the microscope of institutional evaluation.
At the beginning of his five-year term, the President of the Council faces fundamental organizational and constitutional challenges that require leading the legislative debate with the required balance, and managing the political competition between the components of the majority and the opposition factions with the same distance that guarantees the rights of all and preserves the prestige of the institution.
Ahmed Al-Twizi culminated his political career with his election as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the general session held on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. According to the results of the vote, Al-Twizi won the third constitutional seat in the state pyramid by obtaining an absolute majority represented by 220 votes, with direct and intense support from the components of the new government coalition.
On the other hand, his direct competitor, Idris Al-Azmi Al-Idrissi, the candidate of the opposition Justice and Development Party, won 59 votes.
This session witnessed veiled political messages through the recording of a white or canceled voting bloc that amounted to 90 votes out of 369 votes expressed, which reflects the extent of the silent tensions within the legislative dome.
Ahmed Touizi's political biography cannot be read in isolation from his fortified territorial domain in the Al Haouz province, specifically the city of Ait Ourir, near Marrakesh. This mountainous and emerging region was not just a place of birth and upbringing, but it has always constituted the decisive electoral reservoir and the back base from which he set out to build his political influence.
Although this close connection to the region gave him the legitimacy of the field, it was not without continuous criticism from local actors and opponents who considered that his local management outcome did not achieve the desired development leap in his original town and the surrounding areas.
The new Speaker of the House of Representatives is 71 years old. He was born in the 1950s and lived through the transformations of modern Morocco. Touizi received his academic education in the sciences department, a specialty that qualified him to enter the public job as a professor of natural sciences in the Moroccan public education sector.
The party history of Ahmed Al-Tawizi reveals clear political flexibility and the ability to adapt to the fluctuations of the Moroccan party scene and the changing balance of power. His first steps in political work began in 1974 within the organizations of the National Union of Popular Forces in Marrakesh.
The responsibilities that Al-Tawizi held varied throughout his decades of administration at different territorial and legislative levels. He assumed the presidency of the communal council of the city of Ait Ourir for several successive terms, and strengthened this territorial influence by being elected president of the council of the Marrakesh-Tensift-Al Haouz region between 2011 and 2016.
By entering the office of the Presidency of the First Chamber, Touizi directly succeeds former President Rachid Talbi Alami, who belongs to the National Rally of Liberals party.
