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News 24 May 2013 2 min read

Justice calls for the application of the 20 July minutes: Unemployed graduates triumph over Benkirane

The unemployed graduates who signed the 20 July 2011 minutes with Abbas El Fassi have finally won their case.
Justice calls for the application of the 20 July minutes: Unemployed graduates triumph over Benkirane
A hard blow for the head of government. The unemployed graduates who signed the 20 July 2011 minutes with Abbas El Fassi have finally won their case.The Rabat administrative court ruled on Thursday 23 May. It called on the government to integrate the signatories of the 20 July 2011 minutes into the civil service, and to compensate them financially and administratively by taking into account the date of signature.This is what several members of the concerned unemployed graduate coordinations indicated to ALM. "Abdelilah Benkirane had challenged us to go to court, promising us that he would only apply the minutes if the court ruled in our favour. Today, the head of government no longer has any pretext for not respecting commitments made by the State", stressed Jamal Guilloul, one of the signatories of the minutes.He added: "Crowning two years of waiting and protests, this judgment puts an…

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