2024-07-06 00:41:23
In his speech on the occasion of the closing of the work of the first legislative session of the current year, Mr. Talbi El Alami affirmed that the main thing relates to the nature and scope of the approved laws, stressing that around thirty texts are founding laws relating to the social sectors, in particular health, social assistance, the judicial system, investments, agriculture and finance, with all that this entails in terms of legislative framework, regulation of central and regional interventions of the State and relocation of services and investments.
This contributes, according to him, to modernizing public interventions, to guaranteeing their effectiveness, to organizing solidarity, to achieving equity and social justice, to attracting and facilitating investments, as well as to consolidating the governance of the public service and guaranteeing the rights of all.
Mr. Talbi El Alami also stressed the importance of legislative initiatives by members of the House of Representatives, which are manifested in bills. These come from the daily interaction of deputies with society and its components, as well as with citizens and professional bodies.
He expressed the wish to see a new dynamic of examination of the proposed laws in accordance with the new provisions which will be provided for in the new internal regulations of the House of Representatives after its approval.
Mr. Talbi El Alami also called for not neglecting the contribution of deputies to the enrichment of the bills they approve, in particular the finance laws which have undergone 764 amendments, 105 of which have been accepted by the government.
This reflects, on the one hand, the collaboration between the House and the government and, on the other hand, the relevance of the proposed amendments, as well as the parliamentary imprint on the legislation and on the amendments of ordinary bills, he argued.
Regarding the exercise of control skills, through the questions addressed to the government, Mr. Talbi El Alami praised the optimal exploitation of this mechanism by the various components of the House. This optimal exploitation was notably reflected in the nature of the questions, their orientation and their focus on current issues and sectors that arouse the interest of national public opinion, in addition to the government’s responsiveness to them.
He specified, in this sense, that the number of plenary sessions during which the Head of Government answered questions from MPs during the first half of the current legislature amounts to 12 sessions, during which he answered 60 questions related to public policies in the areas of social protection, investment, health, education, culture, economic and political empowerment of women, in addition to the state of the national economy in the international context, as well as other issues that have received greater attention from public opinion, the government and other institutions.
He added that the number of weekly plenary sessions devoted to questions from members of the House and answers from members of the government amounts to 62 sessions, during which 1,849 questions were scheduled and received answers.
Mr. Talbi El Alami explained that the scheduling of oral questions for the weekly plenary session is governed by time and quota factors, which means that the adoption of the answers, as an indicator of performance evaluation, does not meet the standards of objectivity, as the deputies addressed more than 9,000 questions to the government.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives further noted that the government responded to 10,292 written questions out of a total of 16,640 questions addressed to it, representing a response rate of 70%.
After welcoming the positive interaction between the legislative and executive branches, Mr. Talbi El Alami stressed that the collective ambition of the House is to take advantage of this progress in order to achieve the highest possible interaction rate with the questions of the deputies.
He also indicated that the permanent parliamentary committees examined, during the first half of the current legislature, some 366 subjects which were the subject of 781 requests from the parliamentary groups, including 53 subjects which were the subject of 32 meetings.
Regarding the information missions of the standing parliamentary committees, Mr. Talbi El Alami indicated that the office of the House was authorized ten information missions on current issues such as the distribution and marketing networks of agricultural products, the state of the mouth of Oum Errabia and the decline in its flow. These are the two missions whose reports were debated in two plenary sessions.
He continued that during the information missions, these commissions were also interested in other issues such as careers, summer camps, forensic medicine, highways, the state of cities and public university residences, as well as the reception conditions of the Moroccan community residing abroad.
Furthermore, Mr. Talbi El Alami stressed that it was also a question of reactivating relations with the rest of the constitutional institutions and governance bodies, saying he was convinced of the relevance of the reports and opinions they draw up.
2024-07-06 00:41:23