Moroccan Lawmakers Press Government on Soaring Olive Oil Prices and Fraud

Lawmakers are asking the government to take urgent measures to address the drop in production, the rise in prices and the fraud of Moroccan olive oil. MP Rachid Hamouni, president of the parliamentary group of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) in the House of Representatives, raised the issue of olive oil fraud, which he says poses a threat to consumer health and discredits the quality of the product. Hamouni asked the Minister of Agriculture what measures have been taken or he intends to take to combat this phenomenon.

For his part, MP Ahmed Zahou, from the