Majority groups in Parliament praise government's draft finance bill

The majority groups in the House of Representatives praised Akhannouch’s cabinet’s project and experience, during the discussion of the Finance Bill for the next fiscal year on Saturday.

“Our support is based on the parliamentary oversight related to the aspirations of female citizens,” said Muhammad Ghayat, head of the National Rally of Independents parliamentary group.

The head of the National Rally of Independents (RNI) group added that the popular confidence that emerged from the September 8 elections is a political response to all those who doubt the integrity of the national electoral process, and a clear political message to all those opposed to the path of modernization and democratization.

“We must arm ourselves with the language of truth and reality as it exists, not as it is in the imagination of some,” said Ghayat.

For his part, Ahmed Al-Tawizi, head of the Authenticity and Modernity (PAM) group, said that “the government is well aware of its responsibility to set priorities and projects during its mandate and mobilize the necessary means.”

He added that the Finance Bill 2022 comes within the framework of the remnants of the epidemic crisis of Covid 19, which poses the need to revive the economy and monitor all possibilities and efforts to get the country out of the economic consequences of this epidemic.

The head of the PAM group in the House of Representatives added that the recovery of the international economy will inevitably have an impact on the purchasing capacity of citizens, given the record rise in primary and energy resources, which will at the same time affect the performance of the trade balance.

Al-Tawizi described the finance bill as a social project, adding that social governments are not measured by slogans and tickle emotions, but rather by the financial funds allocated to these social aspects and their good management, reiterating support for the originality and modernity of the government’s approach and programs.

In his turn, Muhammad Al-Hafiz, the parliamentary representative of the Independence Group, called on the government to reconsider the free trade agreements, which he considered to have become a heavy burden on the trade balance.

Muhammad Al-Hafiz, the parliamentary representative of the Istiqlal Group said that his party appreciates the Finance Bill as a project that calls for optimism by committing to achieving 3.2 percent as a growth rate in light of the difficult economic situation.

On the other hand, Hafiz called for reconsidering the free trade agreements and protecting the national product from unequal competition in the absence of the necessary support for exporting companies.

The main majority groups in the Moroccan parliament are RNI, PAM and Istiqlal as these three parties swept the polls on September 8 elections with RNI coming first, followed by PAM and Istiqlal. The three parties formed a coalition and share the ministerial positions along with technocrat ministers in the current government’s headed by RNI’s leader, Aziz Akhannouch.