PJD Secretay General Abdelilah Benkirane lashed out at Aziz Akhannouch on a Facebook live late Tuesday, saying he was backing fuel companies to increase profits after fuel liberalization, as inflation enters its third month, and prices show no signs of slowing.
By early 2015, Benkirane’s led government lifted subsidies on all fuels, saying at the time that fuel subsidies benefitted companies primarily, with only 15 percent of subsidies actually going to individuals.
In a recent meeting, the government majority leaders have stated that “much of the current economic crisis Morocco is undergoing, is part of the various remnants left by the outgoing government,” calling the PJD’s legacy “catastrophic.”
“The party is proud of this, and it pursued the reform independently from the World Bank or the King,” Benkirane said before he went on to attack Akhannouch.
“You were one of the happiest people with the decision, but the mistake we made was in having confidence in competition between the fuel companies.”
“You and the companies have agreed to compete in a way that goes against the principles, and morals.”
Benkirane continued that “the prime minister claimed that he did not have a magic wand to reduce prices,” but criticized him for hiring social media to run an advertising campaign worth more than 200.000 million dirhams to promote the Forsa program.”
Akhannouch and his family are Africa’s 13th richest people, worth an estimated $2.2 billion.
“You have shown signs of extreme weakness as prime minister,” Benkirane said
Aziz Akhannouch has insisted over the weeks that “Morocco is going along rationally in order to manage the current crisis, despite the contexts of the pandemic, drought, and the international situation,” stressing that “the pressure on the budget is real, but it is being dealt with.”
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