The first conference of the National Party was highlighted by a speech by the leader Allal El Fassi at the opening session in which he proceeded to provide a detailed analysis of the political situation that evolved since the recent conference of the Assembly for National Action, the predecessor of the new party. Instead of getting better, the situation has gotten worse because of the material and morale crises the nation went through over the course of the past year. These were essentially due to the segregationist policy and brutality carried out by the Protectorate Administration. The protectorate power did not fulfill any of the commitments it had promised. The urgent demands remained a dead letter despite the pressing needs of the country in areas like social justice and welfare. The events that took place in Meknes which cost the lives of innocent citizens will forever be remembered. These resulted in a wave of repression, deportations, and imprisonment with the only crime committed was to have demonstrated in support of prisoners who had protested against the confiscation of water and diverting it to benefit of the colonist settler lands.

In this fashion, the countryside was severely impacted. All persons suspected of cooperating with the reform movement or having links with this movement were literally hounded. Hundreds were imprisoned and tortured, their lots vandalized and their belongings confiscated. The regulars of the eighth Spahi (French cavalry consisting of North African troops) swarmed on an area nearby Béni Yazgha and razed to the ground everything after committing the worst atrocities. They destroyed tents, helped themselves to available money and fowl, raped women and persecuted the innocents.

The colonial administration gave free reign to one named Albiaz then to El Glaoui and their acolytes to crush any resistance of the Marrakesh population. They filled prisons with those arrested for no reason. They drove others into exile, whipped some and enchained others. They invaded people's homes. They attacked theologians and legal experts. They sealed off the homes of craftsmen and nationalists after evicting them and damaging their household goods. They attacked the religious schools chasing away the students and their teachers. They showered scorn on the sacred book and the wooden writing boards that the pupils used to learn verses of the Koran and then closed these schools. They seized national newspapers and imposed fines and sanctions on anyone observed reading them.

Those French nationals in charge of the protectorate authorized a missionary pilgrimage to Khemmiset's Saint Theresa church in its capacity as the saint of evangelical missions. The Ait Ouribel students in the Zemmour province were to celebrate the last phase of their Koranic school year only under the condition that they abstain on this occasion from reading the Koran and to not proclaim any prayers in deference to His Majesty the Sultan in the same manner as they earlier had interdicted the Marrakesh population from celebrating the Mouloud holiday, the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet.

All this was proof that the Protectorate Administration continues to cling on to its Berber policy. Needless to say the national press has been totally muzzled with all its articles, before their release, subjected to controls, censure, seizure or even outright ban. Likewise one hardly has to recall that all the demands submitted to obtain authorization for the creation of an association of no matter what kind were met with refusal by the government with no valid justification. Add to this a smear campaign against the Assembly for National Action by a press totally committed to the colonial mindset and you would have a perfect picture of the circumstances that Moroccans lived through over the past year.

After this assessment of the political situation since the conference of October 1936, the floor was given to communiques sent out by the new party during the past year. Then a proposition called the National Pact was submitted to the attendees to vote on each of the following articles:

Abderraouf Hajji