After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, mandatory military service is about to resume in Morocco.
The upcoming draft will be the 37th in the history of the Kingdom, and will enrol 20,000 young men and women, aged 18 to 25 years.
Abdellatif Loudiyi, Minister Delegate to the Head of Government, responsible for the administration of National Defence, revealed that all preparations are in place to receive the upcoming class of Moroccans to the compulsory military service.
In a statement, the Minister of the Interior called for youth to fill out the census form on military service, which needs to be filed no later than February 10, 2022. The census operation began in mid-December and will continue until the aforementioned date.
Young Moroccans will be required to fill the form on a dedicated platform, namely tajnid.ma. Those who wish to be exempt from the census need to attach the necessary documents attesting to their respective reason for exemption to the local administrative authorities, or the seat of the province, prefecture or prefecture of the district, in the city of their residence.
The census operation for military service so far is experiencing unprecedented enthusiasm, proving that early reticence to the project has faded, and that awareness about the service has changed.
This success can be explained, among other things, by the opportunities offered at the end of the military service, in terms of access of young people to the labour market thanks to the certificates of vocational training favouring an entry into the professional market.
Candidates, conscripts or volunteers selected, follow a 12-month training, divided into two phases. The first lasts four months, called basic general training, while the other lasts eight months, which gives access to a specialised training, including six months of professionalisation and two months of field activity.
Compulsory military service was first introduced in 1966 in Morocco. Repealed in 2006, it was officially reintroduced following a vote in Parliament in December 2018.
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