Morocco has decided to increase the defense budget in the 2025 finance law to 133 billion dirhams, after it was around 124 billion dirhams in the 2024 finance law.
Article 39 of the finance bill for the year 2015 specifies: “The amount of expenditure authorized for the Minister delegated to the Prime Minister responsible for the management of National Defense to be committed in advance during the 2025 financial year on the credits to be allocated. is set at one hundred and thirty-three billion, four hundred and fifty-three million (133,453,000,000) dirhams for the financial year 2026; With regard to the calculation of expenditure from so-called “acquisition and repair of equipment for the Royal Armed Forces and support for the development of the defense industry” allocations.
Furthermore, the Government Council held yesterday Friday examined a certain number of draft decrees related to the military field, presented by the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister responsible for the management of National Defense, Abdellatif Loudiyi.
Draft decree No. 2.24.921 concerns the use of cloud digital service providers for organizations and infrastructures of vital importance containing information systems or sensitive data, while draft decree No. 2.24.922 concerns the modification of decree No. 2.73.657 taken on Safar. 16, 1394 (March 11, 1974) Organization and management of hospital institutions affiliated to the Royal Armed Forces.
The case also concerns, according to the report, draft decree No. 2.24.684 amending decree No. 2.15.962 of 6 Jumada al-Awwal 1437 (February 15, 2016) concerning compensation for military withdrawal.
