The publication of this study falls within the framework of the prerogatives with which the Council is invested as an advisory institution invested in matters concerning Moroccans residing abroad, particularly with regard to monitoring, evaluation and the improvement of public policies dedicated to them, indicates the CCME in a press release.
This research work, made available to political and institutional actors, researchers and journalists, aims to analyze the treatment reserved by the legislative institution, namely the House of Representatives and that of Councillors, to the question of the diaspora. Moroccan, underlines the press release.
In this context, the study focuses on the results of Parliament in terms of control of the action of the Executive in this area, just as it is devoted to the monitoring and analysis of the results of the action government at the service of Moroccans living abroad over the period concerned.
In an introductory word, the Secretary General of the CCME, Abdellah Boussouf, believes that this research work “deals with the question of public policies dedicated to MREs in the light of royal speeches and the constitutional text, and by dwelling on documents framework that framed government work during the period covered”.
According to Mr. Boussouf, “this study is intended as a CCME contribution to the public debate on issues of interest to the Moroccan community abroad. Its purpose is to promote a better understanding of the real place occupied by questions relating to MREs in the national political debate and, therefore, to mark the way for joint action aimed at developing a global and harmonious public policy. , which is up to the High solicitude with which HM King Mohammed VI surrounds the MRE and in tune with the central place assigned to this category in the 2011 Constitution”.
The study establishes regarding fifty remarks concerning the treatment reserved by the legislative and executive powers to the questions of the Moroccan community established abroad over the specified period, specifies the press release.
First, the authors draw attention to the discrepancy between the directives contained in the speeches of HM the King and the constitutional provisions concerning MREs on the one hand, and the policies adopted by the government, on the other. This is reflected, according to the same source, in the absence of a coherent and integrated public policy aimed at this category of citizens.
It should be noted that the government’s record in this area is limited to a series of administrative, legislative, economic and social measures, which is why the translation of the related constitutional provisions into public policies, laws and legislation is still pending.
Second important finding: the analysis of statistics in relation to the work of Parliament in terms of legislation and control highlights several shortcomings with regard to the interest shown by the elected representatives of the Nation in the issues of the diaspora.
The authors thus report on a single monthly session devoted to this question throughout the ninth legislature. Similarly, the proportion of questions relating to this subject, out of all the questions asked in the hemicycle, remains insignificant: only 247 questions out of a total of 36,823 questions presented during the 9th legislature interested MREs, i.e. 0.67% .
The third major remark made by the study concerns the fact that instead of striving to put in place public policies in good and due form, parliamentary action in favor of MREs has rather focused on practical measures. .
Hence the importance, according to the CCME, of redoubled efforts to make the elected representatives of the Nation aware of the evolution of the situation of the Moroccan community abroad in the light of the royal speeches and the Constitution of 2011, with a view to establishing comprehensive and integrated public policies in this area.
