Rabat – Rachid Bougha
The Moroccan government has been formed, headed by Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary General of PJD. Ministers are ready to head to Ifrane to be officially appointed as ministers for the new government and to swear-in before the Moroccan King.
It was confirmed to ‘Arabstoday’ that the Moroccan PM amended his governmental list and submitted it to King Mohammed VI last Saturday. The amendment included that Ramid gets to keep the Justice Ministry – an issue of controversy last week – while some other changes occurred.
Moroccan website Goud published a government ministers’ list, reported to be the “final list including the ministers invited to Ifrane”. The list went as follows:
Justice and Development Part (PJD)
Prime Minister: Abdelilah Benkirane
Minister of State without portfolio: Abdallah Baha
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Saadeddine Othmani
Minister of Government Public Affairs: Naguib Bolife
Minister of Transportation and Equipment: Abdelaziz Rabbah
Minister of Justice: Mostafa Ramid
Minister of Parliament Relations: Lahib Shoubani
Minister of High Education: Lahoucin Daoudi
Minister of Family and Solidarity: Basima Haqqawi
Minister of Commerce and Industry: Abdel Qader Emara
Party of Progress and Socialism
Minister of Housing and Construction: Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah
Minister of Health: Doctor Lahoucin al-Wardi
Minister of Employment: Abdel Wahid Soheil
The Popular Movement:
Minister of Interior: Mohand Laenser
Minister of Modernization of Public Sector: Mohammed Ouzzine
Minister of Tourism: Lacoucin Haddad
Minister of Youth and Sport: (could be assigned to a woman as the party nominated 4 women for the post)
Istiqlal Party
Minister of Economy and Finance: Nizar Baraka
Minister of Energy and Minerals: Fouad Doueri
Minister of Culture and Meda: either al-Hassan Abdel Khaliq or Abdallah Baqali
Minister of National Education: (Royal palace disapproved of Kinza al-Ghali)
Sovereign Ministries, selected by the royal palace (most are still confidential)
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries: Aziz Akhannouch
It is worth mentioning that this finalised list came after tense negotiations amongst the coalition members. Slight changes were made by the king such as the ministry of Finance which was divided into portfolios, where the Ministry of Budget and Public Accounts was given to Idris Azmi, from PJD, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance was assigned to Nizar Baraka from Istiqlal.


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