Akhannouch presents ambitious goals for government's 5 year plan

The head of the government, Aziz Akhannouch chaired today the newly formed government’s first  council devoted to presenting its program, aligned with the country’s efforts to speed up development and face up to pandemic-related economic slowdown.

The 5 basic principles that headed to the government program are as follows:  

•  Strengthening democratic choice and its mechanisms;
•  Institutionalizing social equity,
•  Placing human capital  at the center of the development model,
•  The dignity of the citizen, 
• Expanding the purchasing power of the middle classes, 

These goals are to be implemented by:

•  Creating at least one million jobs over the next five years
•  Increasing the activity rate of women to more than 30%, instead of the current 20%;
• Implementing universal social protection,
• Protecting and expand the middle class and ensure the economic and social conditions for the emergence of a rural middle class,
• Mobilizing the educational system – with all its components – with the aim of placing Morocco among the top 60 countries in the world,
• Implementing the official character of Amazigh, notably through the creation of a special fund with a budget of one billion dirhams by 2025.

The new liberal-led government in a decade, pumped hope in the veins of the Moroccan political scene, after ten years under PJD’s lead, and the announcement of Akhannouch’s cabinet composition, which included many brand new names in addition to seven female figures, raised expectations among Moroccans of a different political era.