Moroccan Business Leader Chakib Alj Elected CGEM President, Pledges Economic Reform

Chakib Alj, who was elected with 4,122 votes (96.18%) following this secret ballot election, thus succeeds Salaheddine Mezouar, for a three-year term. Despite the many achievements to the credit of his predecessor, the task incumbent on the new boss of the bosses is enormous.

According to this native of Casablanca who began his professional career in 1987, "the CGEM has the means and must be the spearhead of the evolution towards the new development model". It is in this dynamic that the former CEO of the Nouvelle Société des Moulins du Maghreb called on his peers to take into account innovation, national value chains and social equity, as "the fundamental basis of any sustainable development system".

According to the new president of the CGEM who also chairs the Inter-Professional Federation of Cereal Activities (FIAC) and TIJARA 2020, the Federation of the Consumer Goods Distribution Trades, "we must remove the brakes on the development of our companies, in particular, financing, payment terms, opening up to the international and upgrading our companies for sustainable growth," he insisted, stressing the need to move towards a more solidary national economy, economically efficient, and whose fruits of growth must be shared by all.

According to Chakib Alj, priority will be given "to SMEs-SMIs which represent more than 95% of the economic fabric, and also to the industrial sector, creator of long-term jobs".