As part of its constitutional mission of control and monitoring of the management of public affairs and the implementation of projects relating to economic and social development and the guidelines required for good and judicious governance, the Socialist Group-Ittihadie Opposition in the House of Representatives addressed during the weekly questioning session on Monday January 6, 2025 a number of issues relating, among other things, to the social protection system, the issues of construction authorizations and regularization of real estate situation in rural areas and the recurring phenomenon of speculation in the field of pharmaceutical services.
Indeed, during this oral questioning session, the president of the Ittihadi opposition group, Abderrahim Chahid, criticized with great virulence the social protection system designed by the tripartite executive, calling for concrete measures to be taken required for the efficient treatment of the dysfunctions that mar this crucial social sector.
Thus, in reaction to the intervention of the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Amine Tehraoui, the USFPEIST parliamentary deputy noted that the measures taken in this social area have not succeeded in leading to the expected results, deploring the persistence of spatial inequity and disparities between provinces reflected in parliamentary questions “focusing on well-defined regional issues and reflecting the importance of local inequalities observed in the health sector », while noting that even within the framework of the AMO, nearly 90% of the beneficiaries of this system find themselves forced to resort to the private sector because of the lack of attractiveness of the public sector…
In this regard, the president of the socialist opposition group questioned the government’s capacity to improve the functioning of the public health sector in order to meet the demands of citizens in this area (…)
On the other hand, the Scoliaste-Ittihadie Opposition Group in the House of Representatives called on the Minister of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy to adopt a more realistic and more comprehensive approach to dealing with construction authorization issues and regularization of the real estate situation in the rural world.
In response to the reaction of the government official, the deputy member of the Ittihadie opposition group, Abdelghani Mekhdad, taking up the link between the problem of authorizations and the absence of land ownership, emphasized the role vital of the urban planning sector in the process of development of rural areas and in limiting the spatial and social disparities which exasperate the said phenomenon…
The Ittihadi parliamentarian also warned of the pressures exerted through the complex provisions encouraging rural exodus towards the cities, calling for the revision of town planning law according to a radical procedure capable of simplifying administrative procedures, even as he underlined the need for the creation of a specific town planning agency in the rural world.
In this same vein, the Ittihadi parliamentary deputy, Abdelhaq Amghar, for his part, deplored, during the questioning session of the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, the difficult situation experienced by the rural population, particularly in the province of Al Hoceima, particularly due to the recurrence of power cuts.
The usfpeist parliamentarian Amghar, reacting to the response of the competent minister, raised the problem of the insufficiency of electrical transformers and their inability to convey demographic development in a number of rural communes such as Ketama, Aabd Al Ghaya Saouahel, Béni Jamil, which has had a major impact on their daily lives despite repeated requests and calls to put an end to “this daily suffering”.
The Ittihadi MP also insisted that these grievances were the subject of recurring written questions on this subject and that the government’s responsiveness was never manifested (…)
For his part, the deputy member of the Ittihadie Socialist-Opposition Group, Abdelkader Aanane, delivered a virulent intervention criticizing the situation of blatant speculation marking the medicines market in Morocco.
The USFPEist parliamentarian indicated, in this regard, that the domination of a number of laboratories in the sector concerned has caused an increase in the prices of medicines, having a heavy impact on the purchasing power of citizens (…)
In this vein, Aanane denounced “the complicity” between a certain number of doctors and drug companies defining prescriptions by their commercial names in place of their scientific titles (?)
To this end, MP Ittihadi Abdelkader Aanan emphasized the need to issue legislation requiring the qualification of prescribed medicines by their scientific names while prohibiting the circulation of their commercial logos (…)
Rachid Meftah
