The Ministry of the Interior is tightening the screws. Faced with the anarchy that sometimes reigns in urban transportation, particularly taxis, Abdelouafi Laftit presented a strict disciplinary report to Parliament: 5,000 infractions recorded in 2025 and more than 1,500 licenses suspended.
The political horizon is darkening for many local elected officials. The Ministry of the Interior has initiated a process aimed at banning from elections officials involved in the proliferation of anarchic industrial zones. This administrative offensive, coupled with aerial surveillance of the countryside, promises to redraw the electoral map well before the 2026 deadlines.
Abdelouafi Laftit landed on Monday in Nador for an unannounced inspection of the Marchica construction sites . Faced with the accumulated delays on this structuring project, the Minister of the Interior is imposing an ultimatum on local officials: accelerate the pace or face immediate corrective measures.
The Ministry of the Interior has decided to sanction an authority agent in the province of Tinghir . Minister Abdelouafi Laftit ordered the dismissal of the caïd (local administrator) of the commune of Taghzout N’Aït Atta, following the circulation of a video showing the official insulting a citizen.
Faced with illegal occupations, the Ministry of the Interior is trying to protect soulaliyate lands against dispossession , before integrating them into the socio-economic development dynamics of Morocco. In this sense, through its Directorate of Rural Affairs, it has launched a large-scale operation to census and regularize collectively-owned properties exploited outside any legal framework.
The Moroccan government is preparing to toughen its legislation regarding opinion polls during election periods . A bill, presented by the Minister of the Interior, aims to specifically criminalize the use of new technological tools to conduct or publish such surveys, in order to combat their "inappropriate use" aimed at "influencing the normal course of the electoral process".
Speaking on Wednesday on the sidelines of the examination of the budget of his ministry before the Committee on the Interior and Local Authorities at the House of Representatives, Abdelouafi Laftit threatened to take legal action against any elected official who illegally appropriates collective lands or diverts funds from their sales.
This year, the Ministry of the Interior has already initiated legal proceedings against 300 local elected officials involved in financial crimes. This approach is part of a policy of moralizing public life and promoting transparency.
Morocco has managed to reduce the areas dedicated to illegal cannabis cultivation to 20,627 hectares in 2025, compared to 134,000 in 2003, a decrease of 85%, according to updated data from the Ministry of the Interior.
By the end of August 2025, the Moroccan police forces seized a total of 446 tons of narcotics, including 385 tons of cannabis resin and 61 tons of kif plants, as well as 788 kg of cocaine, 1.04 kg of heroin, and 1,259,662 psychotropic tablets, according to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior.
Morocco has launched a vast national program to modernize its urban public bus transport network. Spanning the period 2025-2029, this initiative aims to thoroughly renew the vehicle fleet and improve the quality of service in dozens of cities across the kingdom.
The Ministry of the Interior is stepping up the fight against speculative retention and encouraging better use of urban land. In this sense, the calculation of the tax on undeveloped land will change from 2026.