The active and consistently targeted deployment of the Ittihadi opposition reflects the militant and institutional observation by the Socialist Group-Ittihadi Opposition in the parliamentary institution of the entire process of monitoring and controlling the management of public affairs.
It is in this context that the Public Finance Control Committee of the House of Representatives held, at the initiative of the Ittihadi Opposition Group, a meeting dedicated to discussing the delay recorded in the implementation of the comprehensive and integrated reform of the public enterprises and establishments sector, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Finance and the Director General of the National Agency for the Strategic Management of State Holdings and Monitoring the Performance of Public Enterprises and Establishments, Abdellatif Zeghnoune.
During this meeting, in his speech on behalf of the Socialist Group-Ittihadi Opposition, Member of Parliament El Hassan Lachguar stressed, first and foremost, that the delay in implementing this reform raises major questions regarding the timing, financial cost, and economic and social profitability of this strategic sector, which includes 57 entities whose funds represent 80% of the total funds of public enterprises and establishments and contribute 67% of the sector's turnover.
Furthermore, MP Lachguar noted the vulnerability of the timeline for the reform in question and the hesitation in issuing legislative and regulatory texts, as well as the government's manifest failure to transform any public establishment into a joint-stock company or to liquidate a sufficient number of unproductive establishments. He also deplored, in this regard, the absence of transparency and merit criteria in the process of appointing independent directors, as well as the low representation of women in governance bodies.
The USFP speaker also indicated that the Ittihadi opposition group's adherence to this major project is neither circumstantial nor political, but manifests itself amidst a principled commitment stemming from the frame of reference of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces and its constant positions regarding the imperative of reforming the public sector, given that it constitutes an essential pillar of social justice and economic development…
On this note, Ittihadi MP El Hassan Lachguar highlighted that "our concern regarding public enterprises and establishments is not an occasional reaction or a cultural luxury in a process of circumstantial political debate, but constitutes a fundamental component of the philosophy and literature of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces…"
He called, in this regard, to take note of the documents and notes prepared by the party of popular forces in recent years, whether on the occasion of constitutional revisions, electoral programmes, or organisational events, but also during the national symposium on taxation or the design of the new development model… and also concerning the expected revisions of the organic law of the Finance Act…
"All this so that you are convinced of the consistency of our positions and our attachment to the need to include the public sector among the priorities of the required change…," he insisted.
El Hassan Lachguar also noted that the pace followed by the government regarding this important project clearly reflects its conception of the approach to the required reform and lacks, in its largest part, a sense of timing as a well-determined factor, as well as political boldness and an initiative-taking spirit to make the necessary decisions well outside of political calculations related to elections (…)
In the same vein, the MP and member of the Socialist Group-Ittihadi Opposition in the House of Representatives notes that the National Agency for the Strategic Management of State Holdings and Monitoring the Performance of Public Enterprises and Establishments is exclusively incapable of concretising the reform and completing its programmes in the absence of recourse to a clear and precise government policy, framing the action of the directly concerned ministerial sectors, while setting a consensual agenda for the realisation of all stages of the process, a policy capable of increasing the pace of drafting the legislative and organic texts included in the framework law or required by the reform.
In this regard, the USFP speaker recalled that the attribution of legislative action falls under the government, which is required to assume its responsibility for completing the legal arsenal and issuing the legislative and organic texts framing the processes of institutional mutation, the creation of hubs, the improvement of action, control, and the development of the contractual system and liquidation…
On the other hand, in reaction to the presentations by the Minister and the Director General, the Socialist Group-Ittihadi Opposition in the House of Representatives recalled that the process of public sector reform cannot be limited by the duration of the current government mandate but refers well to the dynamic launched by the government of alternation and continued through the reports of the Court of Auditors, but also the successive Royal Orientations since 2018, notably the Throne Speech of 2020 which marked a decisive turning point in defining the features of this strategic project.
And the Ittihadi Opposition Group concluded by stressing that it is and remains an essential partner in this ambitious reform project (…)
Rachid Meftah
It is in this context that the Public Finance Control Committee of the House of Representatives held, at the initiative of the Ittihadi Opposition Group, a meeting dedicated to discussing the delay recorded in the implementation of the comprehensive and integrated reform of the public enterprises and establishments sector, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Finance and the Director General of the National Agency for the Strategic Management of State Holdings and Monitoring the Performance of Public Enterprises and Establishments, Abdellatif Zeghnoune.
During this meeting, in his speech on behalf of the Socialist Group-Ittihadi Opposition, Member of Parliament El Hassan Lachguar stressed, first and foremost, that the delay in implementing this reform raises major questions regarding the timing, financial cost, and economic and social profitability of this strategic sector, which includes 57 entities whose funds represent 80% of the total funds of public enterprises and establishments and contribute 67% of the sector's turnover.
Furthermore, MP Lachguar noted the vulnerability of the timeline for the reform in question and the hesitation in issuing legislative and regulatory texts, as well as the government's manifest failure to transform any public establishment into a joint-stock company or to liquidate a sufficient number of unproductive establishments. He also deplored, in this regard, the absence of transparency and merit criteria in the process of appointing independent directors, as well as the low representation of women in governance bodies.
The USFP speaker also indicated that the Ittihadi opposition group's adherence to this major project is neither circumstantial nor political, but manifests itself amidst a principled commitment stemming from the frame of reference of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces and its constant positions regarding the imperative of reforming the public sector, given that it constitutes an essential pillar of social justice and economic development…
On this note, Ittihadi MP El Hassan Lachguar highlighted that "our concern regarding public enterprises and establishments is not an occasional reaction or a cultural luxury in a process of circumstantial political debate, but constitutes a fundamental component of the philosophy and literature of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces…"
He called, in this regard, to take note of the documents and notes prepared by the party of popular forces in recent years, whether on the occasion of constitutional revisions, electoral programmes, or organisational events, but also during the national symposium on taxation or the design of the new development model… and also concerning the expected revisions of the organic law of the Finance Act…
"All this so that you are convinced of the consistency of our positions and our attachment to the need to include the public sector among the priorities of the required change…," he insisted.
El Hassan Lachguar also noted that the pace followed by the government regarding this important project clearly reflects its conception of the approach to the required reform and lacks, in its largest part, a sense of timing as a well-determined factor, as well as political boldness and an initiative-taking spirit to make the necessary decisions well outside of political calculations related to elections (…)
In the same vein, the MP and member of the Socialist Group-Ittihadi Opposition in the House of Representatives notes that the National Agency for the Strategic Management of State Holdings and Monitoring the Performance of Public Enterprises and Establishments is exclusively incapable of concretising the reform and completing its programmes in the absence of recourse to a clear and precise government policy, framing the action of the directly concerned ministerial sectors, while setting a consensual agenda for the realisation of all stages of the process, a policy capable of increasing the pace of drafting the legislative and organic texts included in the framework law or required by the reform.
In this regard, the USFP speaker recalled that the attribution of legislative action falls under the government, which is required to assume its responsibility for completing the legal arsenal and issuing the legislative and organic texts framing the processes of institutional mutation, the creation of hubs, the improvement of action, control, and the development of the contractual system and liquidation…
On the other hand, in reaction to the presentations by the Minister and the Director General, the Socialist Group-Ittihadi Opposition in the House of Representatives recalled that the process of public sector reform cannot be limited by the duration of the current government mandate but refers well to the dynamic launched by the government of alternation and continued through the reports of the Court of Auditors, but also the successive Royal Orientations since 2018, notably the Throne Speech of 2020 which marked a decisive turning point in defining the features of this strategic project.
And the Ittihadi Opposition Group concluded by stressing that it is and remains an essential partner in this ambitious reform project (…)
Rachid Meftah
