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The Parliament’s pavilion at the International Editing and Book Fair (SIEL) recorded, Friday in Rabat, the launch of parliamentary work simulation workshops for the benefit of college and high school students, a sign of the commitment of the legislative institution to strengthen education in citizenship and to encourage the political participation of young people.
Organized for the second consecutive year by the Parliament in partnership with the Ministry of National Education, Preschool and Sports, this program offers representatives of the regional councils of students the opportunity to reproduce, under almost real conditions, the weekly session of oral questions of the two chambers.
A room modeled on the hemicycle of the Parliament was developed in the space of the pavilion, with a platform for the presidency and the session secretariat, three distinct rows for ministers and parliamentarians, as well as a signal language translation device.
The novelty of this edition is the participation of students from the twelve regions of the kingdom, testifying to the generalization of the initiative in all regional academies.
The simulation sessions brought together the delegations from the Dakhla – Oued Eddahab and Laâyoune – Sakia El Hamra regions, in the presence of the Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Mohamed Saad Berrada, the vice -president of the Chamber of Councilors, Lahcen Haddad, and the secretary general of the Chamber, Assad Zerouali.
In accordance with article 100 of the Constitution and the internal regulations of the Parliament, the president of the meeting declared open the constitutional session and presented an agenda relating to the sectors of youth, culture and communication, national education, as well as energy transition and sustainable development.
He then gave the floor to the session secretary for reading the correspondence addressed to the Chamber, bills, opinion of the constitutional bodies, as well as the list of oral and written questions reached at the office of the Chamber.
Immediately afterwards, the president of the session opened the series of oral questions entered on the agenda by granting the speech to the first speaker, who questioned the Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports on measures aimed at encouraging reading and dynamizing the role of libraries. The exchanges have given rise to replicas and counter -replicas, in accordance with the regulations.
The simulation session then dealt with, in addition to the promotion of reading, the fight against school abandonment in rural areas as well as the management of waste and the application of texts relating to pollution, thus responding to the three sectors aforementioned.
The agenda exhausted, the session was lifted to give way to a second simulation bringing together three thematic questions devoted to the advancement of the Atlantic port of Dakhla, conducted in the same format, demonstrating control, by student sponsors, of the conduct of the debates, communication and political interaction.
For his part, Mr. Haddad welcomed this exceptional initiative, which allowed students to demonstrate a marked interest in political and parliamentary issues, as well as important capacities for reflection and expression.
In addition, he argued that the preparation and organization of such a simulation requires considerable efforts, provided both by the students, the educational executives, the managers of the regional academies and the teams of the two chambers of the Parliament, calling to enhance and further expand this experience, by programming it on several occasions.
For Miss Malak Khaitiri, president of the Dakhla – Oued Eddahab region council and president of the second session, this experience is the result of careful supervision of regional academies, which have prepared participants to reproduce the progress of a parliamentary session.
For his part, the coordinator of this project within the Directorate of School Life at the Ministry of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Fatima Laqrech, expressed his wish to see this innovative experience continue and consolidate in partnership with Parliament, believing that it constitutes a privileged opportunity for students to assert their personalities and to assume responsibilities.
The simulation workshops take place daily throughout the duration of the Siel, at the Parliament pavilion, which also houses an exhibition of photographs, videos, publications and documents retracing six decades of flagship moments of legislative action.
