National Development Pact: Consultative Meeting between Parties Represented in Parliament and Ad-hoc Committee on Development Model

The political parties represented in Parliament and the Ad-hoc Committee on the Development Model on Tuesday held a consultative meeting in Salé to develop a common vision on the National Development Pact, one of the two mechanisms for implementing the New Development Model.

This consultative meeting, the second of its kind and which was attended by the secretaries general of the political parties and the President of the committee, Chakib Benmoussa, is part of the examination of issues relating to the report on the New Development Model and recommendations it made, in addition to finding common ground between the Nation’s forces.

In this regard, the general secretary of the Popular Movement Party, Mohand Laenser, said that this meeting led to a “some kind of consensus” with the Committee on the National Development Pact.

Other modifications could be made to this document, which will be presented to other stakeholders in order to enrich it, Laenser told reporters after this meeting.

For his part, Benmoussa said that this consultative meeting is taking place to move forward in the process of setting up the National Development Pact and to give new impetus to the involvement of all stakeholders and all parties in this project.

This process is open to all stakeholders in order to bring improvements to this document, the objective being to reach an acceptable formula, whether in terms of the future vision or the fundamental axes of the pact.

The report on the new development model insists on the need to establish two mechanisms to implement the new development model, namely a National Development Pact, aimed at the consecration of the commitment of all the driving forces of the Nation to new development prospects with a mixed reference, as well as the creation of a mechanism for monitoring strategic development projects.