Ms. Meriem Bensalah Chaqroun and Mr. Salaheddine Kadmiri, candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency of the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), met on Tuesday evening in Tangier with economic actors and members of the Northern Regional Union of Employers.

This meeting was an opportunity for the pair to present a platform of ideas outlining the main axes of the CGEM's action for the next term, as well as to communicate directly with local entrepreneurs and inquire about their problems and expectations.

Speaking during this meeting, Ms. Bensalah indicated that her candidacy is motivated by the desire to strengthen a certain number of values within the Employers' association, notably responsibility, social commitment, competence, entrepreneurial solidarity and performance.

It is also about working for the rehabilitation of the act of entrepreneurship, by focusing on the improvement of working conditions, especially for women, and better use of the various government economic development programmes (Inmaâ, Moussanada), she stressed.

For his part, Mr. Kadmiri specified that the candidacy platform is based on seven major axes: boosting industry, developing the competitiveness of the Morocco offer, developing human capital, facilitating access to financing, improving access to public procurement, promoting the legal environment of the company, helping the company to ensure its social responsibility and making the public-private partnership operational.

The two candidates also stressed the importance of strengthening the role of the regional unions of the CGEM and campaigning in favour of a regulation of the right to strike and a revision of the Labour Code in a way that favours growth, while preserving the rights and achievements of workers.