Morocco: Towards the Disqualification of Corrupt Elected Officials?

The sanction will not be limited to a simple dismissal. The organic law project n°53.25, currently defended by the minister, establishes a drastic lock: any elected official dismissed for serious misconduct, particularly in urban planning, will be ineligible for two full terms, Hespress reports. This legal threat directly weighs on the presidents of councils whose names are already circulating on "blacklists" transmitted to the territorial administrations. These documents list the officials who have facilitated or covered up the erection of illegal warehouses on their own land or that of the State.

On the ground, the hunt is accelerating thanks to technology. The provincial authorities, armed with reports based on aerial surveys, are preparing to launch a wave of demolitions in the coming weeks. The images have revealed a disturbing underground reality: rural residential areas transformed into clandestine industrial complexes. These phantom factories, particularly active in the prohibited manufacture of plastic bags, plunder water and electricity while polluting the groundwater, often under the protection of influential elected officials. The case of the commune of "S’bit" is emblematic, where a family network has maintained control over illicit areas despite a previous dismissal.

This general mobilization stems from a firm directive recently addressed to the walis and governors. The central services demand "zero tolerance" in the rural perimeters of the Rabat-El Jadida axis, including Kénitra, Mohammedia and the outskirts of Casablanca (Médiouna, Nouaceur). The order is given to the caïds and pachas to immediately draw up the necessary reports to suspend the offenders and transmit their files to the administrative justice, thus sealing their political and judicial fate.