This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Rabat
Former Justice Minister Mustafa Al-Ramid linked amendments to the Family Code to the results of the general population and housing census, calling for caution when adopting them.
Al-Ramid declared in a long message published on his official Facebook account: “We, Moroccans, have the right, while we live in an anxious and turbulent world, to recognize the status of the institutions of our country, the stability of our conditions and wisdom to address our problems. The evidence for this is numerous, the most important perhaps being the way in which the question of modifying the Family Code has been handled until now, in particular the adoption of the golden rule which says: “I do not permit what is forbidden.” , nor forbid that which is permitted,” a rule upon which His Majesty the King has repeatedly emphasized and necessitated constant supplies in his sermons connected with the subject.
Al-Ramid added: “Thus, after the committee commissioned by His Majesty crystallized the task of preparing the required amendments, it ordered that the proposals be submitted to the legal opinion of the Supreme Scientific Council, which decided what ‘he has decided in matters of diligence, in which one can agree or disagree with him, and there is nothing wrong with that, but the last word belongs to the institutions. In this context, no word is superior in legal matters to the word of the said council, and it is the essential word of the constitution.
The former minister added in a blog post: “This does not prevent us from drawing attention to what should and should be done, given that the Kingdom completed this year (2024) a general census of the population and housing. It was worth carefully examining the data from this census, especially since one of its objectives was: “to constitute a sampling base for carrying out research on families”. What causes fear and anxiety is the statistical data which indicates the following: first, the total fertility rate continues to decline, since the national average in 2004 was around 2.5%, then it decreases in 2014 to 2.2%, to decrease again in 2024. to 1.97. This decline portends the worst consequences for the country’s demographic future if this difficult curve continues. Second, this sharp decline in fertility would be a direct manifestation of a reduction in family size. Instead of 5.3 individuals in each family in 2004, we would increase to 4.6 individuals in 2014, then to 3.9 individuals in 2024. Third, these data lead to a slowdown in population growth. This growth was 1.38% between 1994 and 2004, and 1.25% between 1994 and 2004. The years 2004 and 2014, reaching the level of 0.85% between the years 2014 and 2024.
“These shocking demographic data,” adds Al-Ramid, “seem to mean nothing, as evidenced by the failure to open a broad public debate about them and the inability of relevant stakeholders to provide answers about them. »
Unfortunately, Al-Ramid continues: “These proposals to modify the Family Code come as if these statistics were normal and do not concern the family in any way. What is certain is that the future of our country is threatened demographically. and we must question the reasons and the evils, and approach all family reforms in the light of these figures.
On this basis, if these proposals help reduce population decline, then welcome, welcome, but if they perpetuate further population decline, then it is not wise to adopt them. This is why I call for the necessary caution in the formulation of the final amendments and to consider the issue of the demographic problem as one of the most important problems that must be resolved with all possible solutions, including legislative solutions that concern the family, without any partiality. consideration, whatever its nature or importance, if it ultimately results in the loss of collegial considerations. The former minister concludes
