Increasing the price of butane gas “is not on the government’s agenda,” said Fouzi Lekjaa, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy and Finance, in charge of the Budget. He responded to an oral question on “the impact of the increase in the price of gas in Morocco”, posed by the socialist group – Ittihadi opposition, in the House of Representatives. According to its explanations, the government devotes more than 15 billion dirhams (MMDH) annually to subsidizing the consumption of butane gas, “support intended in principle for the most deprived categories, who need it the most”.
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“The most vulnerable categories, i.e. the poorest 20% of the population, benefit from only 14% of this support, while the wealthiest categories, i.e. the richest 20%, benefit from 27%. , which is double what the most deprived categories receive,” noted the minister, emphasizing that “the real problem with support for butane gas, as with other subsidized products, lies in the lack of targeting of beneficiaries.” According to him, it is up to the government and the different components of Parliament to “find the most effective mechanisms to guarantee that this support fully reaches the deprived categories, for whom it was established”.
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Direct support, through targeted monetary transfers to vulnerable categories, is thus “the most appropriate solution, because these categories deserve this assistance, just as they must benefit from the budgetary margins that the government can generate by optimizing this system,” he said. noted Lekjaa.
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