Fourteen draft decrees will be on the agenda of the Council of Government to be held next Monday. These include the decree implementing Articles 32 and 35 of the law on the lawful uses of cannabis and the one concerning the amendment of the decree extending the duration of the state of health emergency throughout the national territory to deal with the spread of Covid-19.
In search of a third term at the head of the government, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) is appropriating royal projects such as the high-speed train (TGV) linking Tangier to Casablanca. Its objective is to convince voters to massively vote for it in the next elections scheduled for September 8.
Exceptional authorizations must be granted to any administrative official, candidate in the next legislative elections next September.
As last year, some ministers will not benefit from their vacation this summer . The reason is the involvement of their respective departments in the supervision and monitoring of urgent matters for the country.
In a framing note, Prime Minister Saâd Dine El Othmani has set a growth rate target of 3.2% for 2022. The unveiled PLF will be based on the assumption of an average butane gas price of $450/tonne and an average cereal harvest of 70 million quintals.
The tightening of restrictive measures, particularly the curfew from 9 p.m., is a blow to cinema operators . Box office revenue would have fallen by 90% compared to normal. With their backs to the wall, they have written to Saâdeddine El Othmani.
Dilnur Reyhan, president of the Uyghur Institute of Europe, is asking the Moroccan government not to extradite Idris Hasan, a Uyghur national arrested at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca and then incarcerated in the Tiflet prison on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization. In this regard, she has addressed a letter to Chakib Benmoussa , Morocco’s ambassador to France, on July 28.
The Council of Government, meeting on Tuesday in Rabat, decided to extend the state of health emergency throughout the national territory until September 10, 2021, as part of efforts to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic .
The spread of the Delta variant in Morocco could not only disrupt election campaigns but also push the government to postpone the municipal, regional and parliamentary elections scheduled for September 8.
All the restrictive measures announced by the government to combat the spread of Covid-19 and its variants have been in effect since yesterday, Friday, July 23rd. Moroccans will have to comply with them under penalty of heavy fines or prosecution.
23 projects of investment conventions and addenda to investment conventions, for a total amount of 9.74 billion Dirhams (MMDH), were examined and approved on Friday by the Investment Commission.
The information that a Moroccan security service would have used spyware developed by an Israeli company to target about thirty journalists is false according to the Moroccan authorities. The government denies it and reserves the right to take the measures it deems appropriate.