Morocco Approves Bill to Launch Two New Parliamentary TV Channels

The Parliament will have its own television channels. This is what should be retained from the vote on the bill creating the parliamentary channel. Under the provisions of the adopted text, it is planned to create two television channels. The first will be called "The Parliamentary Channel of the House of Representatives" and the second "The Parliamentary Channel of the House of Advisors", reports hespress.com.

The same source indicates that the television broadcast of the proceedings of Parliament, in the two Chambers, will be done "in respect of the political pluralism of its components and its rights". The channel will be a "public service responsible for informing citizens about news and information relating to parliamentary life".

The two parliamentary channels will be responsible for providing "a news bulletin, a magazine and brief bulletins on events of interest to the House of Representatives and the House of Advisors, as well as discussion programs on current political, cultural and social events as well as on the programs of the parliamentarians of the two Chambers".

Confiding in Jeune Afrique, Habib El Malki, President of the House of Representatives, had spoken of the need to equip the Moroccan Parliament with a television channel, before 2021. "There is a deficit of information on parliamentary activity, which leads to all kinds of unfortunate misunderstandings, and I believe that this weighs on our public life. It needs to be remedied," he had said.