Majority representatives defend the government’s plan to stimulate investment and increase employment opportunities

The National Rally of Independents party team in the House of Representatives defended the government of Aziz Akhannouch and how it dealt with the files and constraints, especially the file related to employment and investment.

Representatives of the National Rally of Liberals confirmed in the monthly question session, today, Monday, in the presence of the Prime Minister, that it is fortunate for Moroccans that “we have a government that knows how to bet on public and private investment in order to control the repercussions of the crisis and even create added value.”

The team explained in its speech to the Prime Minister that managing the constraints, shocks, surprises and uncertainty that the world is experiencing “will not be done using the populist austerity logic as was done in the past without producing results that serve the citizen’s livelihood.”

Representatives of the National Rally of Liberals continued their speech, defending the government in its handling of the employment and investment files, by emphasizing that it had sent strong signals to build confidence with companies, by immediately beginning to pay the arrears of value-added tax exemptions owed by the state to companies, in a cumulative amount of 20. One billion dirhams, stressing that this measure, which affected a number of companies, spared them the specter of bankruptcy and continued to maintain tens of thousands of jobs.

The team noted that “there is no solution to get out of the risks of unemployment, inflation, deficits, loans, marginalization, and social and spatial disparities other than by encouraging and stimulating investment, and taking all necessary legal and institutional measures to support productive investment for development.”

It was confirmed in the session that investment, in relation to employment, constituted “one of the government’s priorities since the first days of its work, and the evidence is that the investment charter was adopted after years of blockades, a law that helped provide investors with new incentive tools to create stable job positions and reduce spatial disparities.” .

For its part, the Authenticity and Modernity Party team in the House of Representatives stressed that supporting reform at the investment and employment levels requires accelerating the implementation of the contents of the new investment charter, appreciating the issuance of regulatory texts for its implementation, especially with regard to basic support and the special support system applied to investment projects of a strategic nature.

The “BAM” team noted the necessity of activating the special support system directed to very small, small and medium enterprises, given the importance of this entrepreneurial fabric in employment and creating job opportunities, as well as focusing on supporting enterprises facing difficulties and reducing their bankruptcy.

He also called for strengthening confidence in its broad sense, and in all its legal, judicial, political, economic, financial and security dimensions, and striving to achieve the elements of national sovereignty, by working to ensure energy, water and food security.

The same parliamentary team called on the government to which it belongs to work to increase the efficiency and returns of investment. “Because unfortunately, each point of the growth rate continued to create less than 21 thousand job opportunities between 2010 and 2019, after more than 30 thousand jobs were created between 2000 and 2009.”

He also stressed the importance of working on fair and effective regional distribution of investment, accelerating the implementation of advanced regionalization, decentralization policies, and administrative decentralization, while encouraging employment through investment in the knowledge economy and precise and high-level training in this field.

For its part, the independence team expressed its hope that the government would work to ensure spatial justice in the distribution of public investment, especially in the less developed regions, among which the average rates of investment vary, as well as directing it in promising sectors, especially investments made by public institutions and enterprises, which amount to a yearly fee. Current finances are 152 billion dirhams.

The majority group noted that the employment stake is mainly linked to stimulating productive investment, which contributes to creating stable, decent and sustainable job opportunities that preserve the dignity of the working people.

Al-Mizan representatives called on the government to strengthen the partnership between the public and private sectors, by keeping pace with the activation of the Mohammed VI Investment Fund, which plays central roles in this field, especially by financing major and structured projects and focusing on promising sectors in the fields of technology, artificial intelligence, renewable energies and development. Logistical infrastructure and seawater desalination, as well as accelerating the implementation of joint ministerial decisions to complete the implementation of the law related to partnership between the public and private sectors.

The Independence Team for Unity and Equity also called on the government to work to promote the values ​​of ethics, transparency, free competition, and the prevention of bribery, and to make optimal use of the reports and recommendations presented by the Supreme Council of Accounts and its regional councils, the General Inspectorate of Finance, the General Inspectorate of the Interior, the Bank of Morocco, and the High Commission for Planning.

As for Chaoui Belassal, head of the social democratic constitutional team supporting the government, he said: “If the prominent title of the first phase of the government mandate was steadfastness, challenge, and laying the foundations of the social state as a quiet, revolutionary royal project, then the characteristic of the current second phase is the bet on the economic sustainability of the social state and securing its pillars and tributaries.” “.

Belassal added, in his speech on behalf of the team, that June 1, 2024, “is the beginning of the actual launch of developmental, reform, and renewal workshops for the state’s economic structures, in the service of productive investment, reviving employment, and deepening spatial justice.”

The spokesman considered that restructuring the public portfolio and improving its management would “ensure accessible and high-quality public service.”