Only one week after the Moroccan government announced that it is reinstating compulsory military service, a collective was created on social media to campaign against the decision. Its members want the measure to be «voluntary».
On Monday, the Moroccan government approved a bill 44.18 related to compulsory national service. The decision might bring back the regulation banned in 2006.
In Spain, senates from the People’s Party have blocked the adoption of two bills resolutely anti-Moroccan.
Much has been said about the new violence against women law, recently adopted by the Moroccan House of Representatives. Human Rights Watch was there to examine the bill, asking the Kingdom to address the gaps.
A bill criminalizing normalization with the Israeli entity has emerged again as the U.S President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel. Moroccan MPs from different political parties called on Monday at the House of Representative the passing of the legislation frozen for four years.
Morocco’s government adopted on Thursday a bill regarding amendments to the status of Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM), which will grant it more autonomy. The new project comes hand in hand with the new exchange rate flexibility measure and is a step towards central bank independence (IBC) recommended by the International Monetary Fund.