For the High Commissioner for Planning, Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, history will testify that King Mohammed VI never intervened in the functioning of his establishment and never imposed a working method, nor a presentation of the results of the census.
On the other hand, Lahlimi specifies, the heads of government who succeeded one another during his mandate at the head of the HCP asked the King for his revocation, reports Assabah in its weekend edition (from August 31 to September 1).
Speaking at a press conference last Thursday, the High Commissioner stressed that he had “received low blows from several ministers when he presented negative results on growth and unemployment rates“Addressing the accusations made by the Secretary General of the PJD, Abdelilah Benkirane, on the exclusion of certain researchers from the census because of their political affiliation, Lahlimi indicated that there were objective criteria in the choice of participants knowing that “The general census of population and housing (RGPH) is neither right nor left».
This same Benkirane had “supported the Minister of the Interior” when he objected to his method of presenting the 2014 census data. “I then stuck to my position by reaffirming that the HCP is an organ that does not depend on the government».
Regarding citizens’ fears of being deprived of direct aid or caught in tax evasion, Lahlimi said there was no connection between the census and the Unified Social Register: “Citizens’ responses are protected by encryption methods programmed into electronic tablets that do not disclose the names of respondents.“He further clarified that the census will not impose new taxes on economic actors.
Responding to accusations by the president of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, Aziz Ghali, on “exploitation of teachers” who will participate in the RGPH, Lahlimi stressed that teachers represent 32% of the 55,000 participants in this operation and that they have always been at the head of the defenders of national affairs, relays Assabah.
The High Commissioner for Planning also denied the existence of any manipulation of the budget allocated to the RGPH, including the direct agreement contract relating to the acquisition of 55,000 electronic tablets.I personally ensured that I accompanied the inspection commissions of the census operation and anyone who can testify that I was never involved in any case of embezzlement of public funds.“, concluded the High Commissioner for Planning.
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