Lekjaa, who presented a preliminary assessment of the execution of the Finance Law (LF) 2024 during the meeting of the Governing Council, stressed that the execution of this LF takes place in a difficult context where the national economy is facing to an international situation marked by moderate growth, due to rising geopolitical and climatic risks.
During a press briefing held at the end of the Government Council, the Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of Relations with Parliament, Government Spokesperson, Mustapha Baitas, indicated that Lekjaa clarified that taking into account of the provisional situation of execution of the FL-2024, the budget deficit continued its downward trend to stand at 4% of GDP in 2024, against 4.3% in 2023.
This control of the budget deficit results from the improvement in ordinary revenue which increased by more than 47.4 billion DH, or 14.6% compared to 2023, he explained..
The minister further noted that this dynamic in ordinary revenues is mainly attributable to the continued increase in tax revenues of 35.9 billion DH, or 13.6% year-on-year.
-In this wake, the debt rate remained at the level recorded in 2023, namely 69.5% of GDP at the end of 2024.
Furthermore, Baitas announced that the Governing Council decided to postpone the examination of bill n°74.24 relating to the creation and organization of the Foundation of social works of civil servants of the prison administration and reintegration, until a later date. subsequent meeting.
