HIBAPRESS – By Mohamed Manfalouti
During his speech regarding the 2026 Finance Law, "Mohamed Ghayath", a member of the political bureau of the National Rally of Independents party, presented a detailed reading with an implicit assessment of the government's work during four years of responsibility.
Ghayath described this period as a stage of political maturity, financial maturity, and social maturity, with its pros and cons, pointing out: "And to know where we are going, we must know where we came from." He added that the government took over the reins while Morocco was closed due to Covid, and all sectors without exception were at their lowest point, and I think we have forgotten this situation (says Ghayath). Without exaggeration, Ghayath adds that the government, in harmony with state institutions, managed the crisis with professionalism, responsibility, and patriotism, and that it laid balanced foundations for the national economy and social services with calculated results that only a denier would doubt, and the numbers speak and history records, far from the noise, says Ghayath. "Maybe it left a little in communication, but it did not make mistakes in the major choices because they are the choices and ambition of His Majesty the King," adds Ghayath. The same speaker added that their discussion of the Finance Law is not just a document, but a roadmap for managing and administering the economic and social transformation of the country, as Morocco is moving in all directions, and the government has succeeded in financing all reforms without affecting financial balances, and this is maturity in the management of public money. Ghayath reviewed during his speech a set of observations that he considered essential and in vital sectors for citizens. In the education sector, Ghayath gave some data for the sake of familiarity, as he said, which is the latest international study to assess knowledge about Morocco in 2021, which ranked our education in the last place, 56 out of 57. 59 percent of Moroccan children in the sixth grade cannot construct a useful sentence; this ranking is sufficient to clarify the legacy that this government has entered, with a third of the teachers, 120 thousand, striking because they were forced to contract, what is the work in managing this crisis? Shall we leave things as they are or initiate reform? Ghayath stressed that the government has initiated reform, starting with the reform of programs, supporting families, reforming reception spaces, and starting pioneering schools. Ghayath added that the administration today has moved from managing absence and attendance to the logic of production, as a budget of 100 billion dirhams today confirms the commitment of the government and the state to produce the best version of the Moroccan child. As for the health sector, there is a national consensus on the dilapidation of the sector, due to the lack of human resources, the poor infrastructure, and the weakness of governance for decades, describing this as the legacy inherited by the government, which initiated this with legislative reform, with the restructuring of management, such as the High Authority for Health, the Blood and Derivatives Agency, and the territorial health groups, with the creation of a hospital in a region, with the transition from 19 billion dirhams to 32 billion dirhams. Ghayath wondered, saying: "What more can be done than this, the problem today is a problem of governance and a problem of mentalities" As for the public investment file, Ghayath said that what has been achieved in this area is not just numbers in the financial law of 380 billion dirhams, but a transformation in the state's philosophy on how to build development and achieve national sovereignty, this ability to invest with its own resources expresses maturity in financial decision-making in our country and we must be proud of that, as public investment today is no longer just spending, but is a sovereign tool to redirect the national economy in all productive sectors… industry… clean energies… these are success stories that we are proud of. Ghayath added that Morocco has moved from the logic of crisis management to management with trust, the trust of financial institutions, the trust of citizens in their country, and therefore maintaining these accumulations is a collective responsibility before the Moroccans at the level of speech and practice, as for supporting private investment, we appreciate the great effort made by the government by issuing the new investment charter and simplifying tax barriers… The question raised is whether this is sufficient… I say no Private investment still suffers from the poor performance of the administration in licenses in processing files and the ambiguity of the decision, and this is your role as a government and time does not wait. In this important political meeting, it is necessary to interact with the files of young people, especially the Z generation, the demands were not the demands of a specific group, but they are the demands of all groups and all Moroccans of good education, available health, and job opportunities, and this interacts in its depth with the government program with only one difference, which is the speed of implementation Because the implementation takes time, it takes between 7 to 13 years to train a doctor, It takes 5 years to train a competent teacher. And the state and the government have responded with seriousness to most of the demands, and this is the Moroccan exception, and even the political participation of young people has been taken into account. Ghayath concluded his speech by saying: "The Morocco of tomorrow cannot be managed by the Moroccans of yesterday."
