Electricity bills below 100 dirhams could become free in Morocco. This electoral promise by the PAM would benefit small consumers, but its annual cost is estimated at nearly four billion dirhams.
A minimum pension of 3,000 dirhams, one million jobs, a sharp reduction in income tax and social assistance increased to 1,000 dirhams: the PAM has just unveiled several particularly ambitious commitments for the legislative elections.
The courts have sentenced Said Naciri, former president of Wydad Casablanca, and Abdenbi Bioui, former regional president, to 10 and 12 years in prison respectively. A historic decision in a vast international drug trafficking case.
Tipped to lead the next executive, Fouzi Lekjaa breaks his silence. The president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation responded with detachment to persistent rumors concerning his possible political ambitions at the head of government.
Moroccan justice authorities ordered on Wednesday the withdrawal of the passport and a travel ban against Abderrahim Bendou. The MP and businessman is being prosecuted while at liberty over suspicions of marketing dairy products unfit for consumption.
Explosive statements by Ahmed Touizi, president of the parliamentary group of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM), on the flour subsidized by the state and used in certain mills have prompted the public prosecutor’s office near the Court of Appeal of Rabat to order the opening of an investigation. For its part, the National Office of Sanitary Safety of Food Products (ONSSA) confirms the existence of irregularities in certain mills.
Tangier is becoming a tourist destination that is too expensive for summer vacations. Concerned, the deputy of the Authenticity and Modernity group, Kouloub Faitah, is questioning the Ministry of Tourism, Handicrafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy.
Of the 30 deputies in the House of Representatives prosecuted or convicted for acts of corruption, embezzlement of public funds or abuse of power, 16 come from the majority (RNI, PAM and Istiqlal). This is the finding made by Jeune Afrique .
The administrative court of the city of Tangier ruled in favor of a company in charge of road works, which had sued the Prefectural Council of Tangier-Assilah chaired by the leader of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity, Mohamed El Hamidi, for "failure" to fulfill its financial commitments within the framework of a public contract.
Complying with the instructions of the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, the authorities proceeded, last Saturday, to the closure of a reception and training center transformed into a private hotel. Elected officials from the Rassemblement national des indépendants (RNI) and the Parti authenticité et modernité (PAM) and officials are involved in this affair.
Member of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM) Abdellatif Zaim has questioned the government about the recurring breakdowns of the air conditioning systems at Marrakech-Menara Airport, calling for urgent intervention to definitively resolve this problem.
MP Mohamed Ouadmine of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) said he lost his mobile phone during a graduation ceremony at a prestigious hotel in Agadir. The device was eventually found in the hands of a cameraman from a public television channel.