Ouahbi: « The new government has its own program and vision… » (Video)
Minister of Justice Abdellatif Ouahbi has confirmed that “the new government has come with its own visions and its own programs that bring us to re-examine a number of issues inherited from the previous government.
Mr. Ouahbi has highlighted during the government response to the second part debate of the budget bill for 2022 “that the reasons to restitute the penal code bill, is due to “our viewpoint in dealing with a number of issues with different approaches and not only with one single issue”, rejecting the reduction of the bill to one single issue which has been dealt with out of an ideological aspect”, according to him.
The Minister added “that we cannot keep a penal code bill that includes a text which is used in a political discourse and which does not find echo among the Moroccan people who has voted against it”, in reference to the raised debate about the bill “where you earn that from”? or “illegal enrichment”
+ « You cannot hold us accountable now until you see the steps we have made. » +
Mr. Ouahbi has asserted that the government has « its own vision and its own program », on the other side it still has no budget so that it should not be held accountable for.
He explained that « there are two things, either we get engaged in political biddings or we have to engage in discussions and connect the dots, that’s why you cannot hold us accountable now until you see the steps we have made… This is the primary budget law in the current government mandate, yet when does accountability starts? It starts after 100 days beginning from the final voting on the budget law, a government without a budget will have no means, and so any action inside the state and at the level of the government action needs financial means. »
The Minister has enhanced that the confidence won by this government from the part of citizens women and men, as regard to his department, which is the Ministry of Justice and its related branches, are in need of reforms and re-examination of a number of issues.
Mr. Ouahbi added: « My vision is different from the previous Minister’s one; it is true that some actions have been done but we need to improve them to the best, it is true that there is the principle of continuity ».
He underlined that : “Yet, this does not mean that I shouldn’t put my mark or my fingerprint and we should also present our opinion as a government in the context of implementing and carrying out the national electoral decision which has bestowed on us the necessity for reforms.”
