26 years at the head of Maroc Telecom and 18 years as president of the Royal Moroccan Athletics Federation (FRMA), Abdeslam Ahizoune has nothing to envy of the bosses of companies located in countries where there is no ‘elections.
This engineer from the Paris Superior School of Telecommunications was appointed director of telecommunications within the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in 1983. He did not wait long before being promoted to director general of the National Post Office and telecommunications (ONPT), reports Assabah of the weekend (October 12 and 13).
In the same period, he was appointed Minister of Posts and Telecommunications respectively in the governments of Karim Lamrani and Abdellatif Filali. The liberalization of this sector in 1997 led to the division of ONPT into three distinct legal entities: Itissalat Al-Maghrib (Maroc Telecom), Barid Al-Maghrib and the National Agency for Telecommunications Technicians.
This is the period during which Abdeslam Ahizoune was appointed general manager of Maroc Telecom before becoming chairman of the board in 2001. A meteoric rise, certainly linked to the fact that this sector was often entrusted to the leaders of a party. policy.
At the same time, the “strong man” of telecoms is also president of the Royal Moroccan Athletics Federation which he has led since 2006. Since then, he has been “tacitly” and “unanimously” reappointed at the head of the FRMA except during the last general assembly during which he faced stiff competition from world athlete Hicham El Guerrouj in a hotly contested election.
His record at the head of the FRMA athletics is inversely proportional to the skills attributed to him by his associates, since Morocco missed three world championships (2009, 2011, 2013) and the 2012 Olympics. Moroccan athletics is today today on a drip and all his results rest on “the feet” of the 3,000 meter steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bekkali, relays Assabah. This is little, very little for a president who has led athletics for more than 18 years and who should have trained several generations of world athletes. But as someone else would say, in Morocco, we don’t change the team (or the president) that loses.
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