Responds to Opposition Criticism on 2027 Finance Bill

Fawzi Lajja, Minister of Economy, Finance and Public Efficiency, responded to the opposition's criticism of the government on the extent to which it fulfilled its electoral obligations, considering that judging its outcome before presenting the Finance Bill of 2027 and discussing it in parliament involves anticipating the results.

During his presentation of the draft to the members of both Houses of Parliament in a joint plenary session, Lagga stressed that issuing judgments of non-fulfillment of promises has the intention of deliberately offending, misleading and deceiving citizens. He stressed that the project represents the first phase of the implementation of the government program over a period of 5 years. Some party officials have called for a halt to the recruitment of youth to promote lies on social media about the government not keeping its promises.

The minister explained that building a social state based on justice requires overcoming the contradiction between economic and social choices, fighting corruption, conflicts of interests and monopolists, and strengthening the rule of law.

He reviewed the measures included in the draft Finance Law of 2027, Indicating that the government intends to allocate 62 billion dirhams to finance social priorities during the first year, and raise public investment to 400 billion dirhams. The measures include reviewing the income tax, gradually raising the minimum pension to 3 thousand dirhams per month at the end of the mandate, improving direct social support, and the state bears the electricity bill for monthly consumption that does not exceed 100 dirhams. In addition to strengthening allocations for health, education, housing, territorial development and youth.

Source: Lakm - https://lakome2.com/politique/435214/