Moroccan PM Slams Opposition Party Over Fuel Price Transparency Claims

Part of Monday’s plenary session turned into an indictment against the PJD, whose parliamentary group leader Abdallah Bouanou accused the current government of "lacking transparency in the application of fuel prices on the domestic market," reports the Arabic-language newspaper Al Ahdat Al Maghribia. "Your remarks contain many inaccuracies and lies. If your goal is to reintegrate fuels into the compensation fund, you must consult your leader (Abdelilah Benkirane, editor’s note) who was the greatest defender of the decompensation of oil products," Aziz Akhannouch replied to him. The latter in turn accused the successive governments led by the Islamists of having liberalized fuel prices and failed to build up the strategic stock of oil products.

Aziz Akhannouch also called on his critics to acknowledge that his government has so far managed this global crisis well, reports the Arabic-language daily Assabah. He showed them that he is working to succeed where the two successive governments led by the Lamp party have failed. "When the PJD was leading the government, it never stopped asking the Moroccans to give it the necessary time to achieve accomplishments. But when it failed and no longer has responsibility, it began to ask others to achieve in 6 months what it did not do in ten years," added the current head of the government council.

And he concluded: "This party that today talks about energy sovereignty waited until the last moment of its last term to inform us that the gas contract with Algeria has expired. Is this a sense of responsibility?"