For several weeks, Mohammed VI, sovereign of the Cherifian Kingdom, has been stepping up the pace of major projects across the country. The stated objective of the Moroccan Head of State is to stimulate growth to counter the negative effects of the high inflation caused by the war in Ukraine, while encouraging job-creating public investment. In the line of sight for the King of Morocco: regain the pace slowed down since the pandemic and capitalize on the stability of the country to propel him as a future regional champion in a deeply modified geopolitical environment.
Since the end of the month of Ramadan, the King of Morocco Mohammed VI – visibly slimmed down following the holy month – has been on all fronts, multiplying project launches, appointments and high-level meetings in order to maintain the favorable trajectory recorded by Morocco since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, despite the slowdowns due to the war in Ukraine and the inflation resulting from the rise in raw materials, the country is still striving to quickly regain its cruising speed in order to achieve the objectives set by the King, drawn up in a recent speech in which the Moroccan sovereign affirmed: “Morocco is moving resolutely towards a promising future, driven by large-scale projects that pave the way for sustainable and prosperous development for all. » . Committed at the same time to a strategy of reconfiguring his geopolitical position, particularly vis-à-vis Europe, Mohammed VI obviously wants to take advantage of the period preceding the summer to refocus his agenda on the home front, before the season major international meetings does not regain its rights.
Water and industry on the front line
As Morocco faces a second year of drought that is putting a strain on the agricultural sector which occupies a key place in the country’s economy, water management and the resulting water stress have become matters of concern. for the Kingdom. As such, Mohammed VI wishes to accelerate the projects by holding a crisis meeting at the Royal Palace in Rabat on May 9, 2023, during which he urged his Prime Minister, the liberal Aziz Akhannouch as well as the Minister of Water, Nizar Baraka, to speed up the water transfer works from the north to the south of the country, as well as the construction of the nine desalination stations planned throughout the territory. At the same time, Morocco wants to capitalize on its success recorded over the past two decades in the automotive industry by launching two all-Moroccan cars which were presented to the king at the royal palace in Rabat on April 15. The first, developed by the company Neo Motors, has already inaugurated its production site near the capital Rabat and should put a small urban SUV on the market in the coming weeks. As for the second, running on hydrogen and developed in partnership with the prestigious office of the Italian designer Pininfarina, it is the fruit of a young Moroccan entrepreneur residing abroad, Fawzi Annajah.
The North: priority to the health sector
The north of Morocco, for its part, suffers from a delay in development compared to the economic “lung” of the country located in the Casablanca-Rabat axis. More specifically, this area of the country suffered from significant delays in terms of health infrastructure. However, Mohammed VI made important announcements concerning this reform, in particular the opening up to foreign investments and skills, announced in 2021 when the pandemic was in full swing. To clearly show that the northern zone of the country would benefit from increased interregional solidarity in the field of health, the king thus inaugurated on April 28 a brand new University Hospital Center in Tangier, which will bear his name. With nearly 800 beds and a total area of 23 hectares located near an oncology center, this mega infrastructure aims to improve health care in the north of the country and relieve existing establishments that could no longer cope. to the number of patients. Above all, this inauguration comes as Morocco is in the process of implementing the generalization of social protection for all Moroccans, which must take place before January 1, 2024.
Public institutions change leadership
Finally, during a Council of Ministers chaired by the King on May 19, the leadership of nearly seven major public establishments was completely overhauled . Seven senior officials have been appointed, including the head of the nuclear security authority, the general manager of the public information agency MAP and the president of Crédit Agricole or the Al Omrane public property group. These appointments come as the king had called in 2018 for a renewal of the bosses of public institutions in order to give new impetus and more impact to state investment in the economy.
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