Habib El Malki

Articles

• Moroccan MPs Face Scrutiny Over Lavish Travel Expenses
  18 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  MP Ghita Badroun (PAM), chairwoman of the thematic commission responsible for the evaluation of public policies related to preschool education, and her colleagues from the MP, USFP and Istiqlal, traveled to Oujda by plane and to Nador by limousine. A trip that must have cost the Moroccan taxpayer dearly.
  There were 10 of them, including officials from the House of Representatives, to make this trip by plane and limousine, reports Assabah. This trip was not to the liking of the President (…)

• Moroccan Opposition Calls for MPs to Donate Allowances to COVID-19 Fund
  5 April 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Istiqlal party has asked the Speaker of the Assembly to cancel the transport and accommodation allowances of parliamentarians and pay them as support to the Special Fund to Fight Coronavirus.
  [Noureddine Mediane], president of the Istiqlal party (PI) parliamentary group, a conservative and opposition member, has appealed to the Speaker of the Assembly, [Habib El Malki], to request the cancellation of the benefits on transportation, the sums dedicated to diplomacy and the accommodation (…)

• Moroccan Parliament Faces Scrutiny as Only 17 of 395 Deputies Attend Session
  20 April 2019, by Amine

  Last Thursday, truancy seems to have been preferred by most Moroccan deputies. 395 were expected, only 17 showed up. And this did not please a deputy who was there.
  The website Article19 writes on this subject: "A PAM deputy, who sent us this sad image, does not hide his revolt at the "lack of civic-mindedness" and "professional conscience" of some parliamentarians whose cost averages the equivalent of $5,000 per month and per pipe. From public funds and tax-payers, of course, claims this (…)

• Morocco Extends Diplomatic Hand to Tunisia, Aims to Strengthen Maghreb Ties
  26 October 2019, by Ginette

  Just after being sworn in before Parliament, the new President of Tunisia, Kaïs Saïed, received at the Carthage Palace in Tunis the President of the House of Representatives, Habib El Malki, and the President of the House of Councillors, Hakim Benchamach, who came to bring the brand new President the message of congratulations and wishes for success for this term that carries all the hopes of the Tunisian people and neighboring countries.
  In a statement to MAP, following this interview, (…)

• Moroccan Parliament Cracks Down on Absentee Lawmakers with New Sanctions
  3 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  Following the failure of the warnings of the president Habib El Malki against absentee parliamentarians, the Bureau of the House of Representatives intends to open the way to sanctions.
  The Bureau of the House of Representatives has activated the provisions of its internal regulations at its last meeting. Some parliamentary groups propose to review the ceiling of sanctions, which are limited to deductions from the allowances of the most absent deputies, reports the newspaper Al Massae. (…)

• Former Istiqlal Party Leader Faces Parliamentary Allowance Cut for Extended Absence
  6 December 2019, by Ginette

  The parliamentary allowances that the former secretary of the Istiqlal party, Hamid Chabat, continues to receive will be reduced, as the procedure stipulates. This is the decision of El Malki, the President of the House of Representatives.
  While he now lives between Turkey and Europe, the former secretary general of the Istiqlal party continued to receive the full amount of his parliamentary allowances. But the President of the House of Representatives has just blown the whistle on the (…)

• Morocco Rejects Israel’s Overtures, Reaffirms Stance Against Normalization
  19 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  Habib El Malki, President of the House of Representatives, reaffirmed that Morocco has no intention of normalizing its relations with Israel.
  Israel’s growing determination to warm up its relations with Morocco continues to meet with a categorical refusal from the authorities of the kingdom. Confiding to the Israeli newspaper Maariv in Paris, on the sidelines of the Moroccan-French parliamentary forum, Habib El Malki, President of the House of Representatives, stated that the kingdom has (…)

• Belgium to Honor Moroccan WWII Soldiers in 80th Anniversary Commemoration
  11 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  Belgium will pay tribute to the Moroccan soldiers who fell on the battlefield during World War II. This was announced on Thursday, January 9, 2020 in Rabat by the General Delegate of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in Morocco, Motonobu Kasajima.
  Kasajima, who discussed this issue during talks with the President of the House of Representatives, Habib El Malki, specified that this tribute ceremony will take place as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of World War II.
  A (…)

• France Praises Morocco’s COVID-19 Response, Seeks Stronger Bilateral Ties
  9 September 2020, by Bladi.net

  France, through its ambassador Hélène Le Gal in Rabat, has welcomed the efforts of the kingdom in its management of the health crisis due to Covid-19 and at the same time affirmed its determination to work for the strengthening of the friendship and cooperation relations between the two countries.
  France and Morocco have centuries-old ties that continue to evolve. During her interview on Friday with the President of the House of Representatives, Habib El Malki, the French Ambassador to (…)

• Morocco Imposes Ramadan Night Curfew to Combat COVID-19 Spread
  13 April 2021, by Ginette

  The head of the Moroccan government was before parliament on Monday to explain the reasons why a night-time curfew has been imposed throughout the month of Ramadan. Saâd-Eddine El Othmani stated that this is the appropriate means to preserve the health of citizens and contain the Sars-Cov-2 virus, of which the new English variant is spreading rapidly.
  El Othmani was speaking before the two chambers of Parliament in the presence of Habib El Malki and Hakim Benchamach. "On the (…)