Morocco’s King Decrees Amazigh New Year as National Holiday, PM Reveals

A phone call made by King Mohammed VI that Aziz Akhannouch will never forget. "One day (in 2023, editor’s note), around 5 PM, I received a phone call from His Majesty the King, during which he announced his decision to decree the Amazigh New Year as an official public holiday," the Head of Government confided to the (1700) militants of the National Rally of Independents (RNI, majority), in Agadir. A moment of joy for the Head of Government who assured that "it was one of the great days of (his) life!". He remembers then hastening to ask King Mohammed VI when the royal decision should be implemented. "Immediately," the sovereign had replied. The president of the National Rally of Independents (RNI) thus assured that it was King Mohammed VI "who decided to make the Amazigh language official, and who decreed the Amazigh New Year as a national, public and paid holiday".

This Amazigh New Year 2974 coincides this year with January 14, the date of the first celebration of Yennayer as a national holiday. A celebration that the Moroccan people will remember. The day before, the RNI organized an artistic evening in Agadir, the capital of Souss, on the sidelines of the party’s 10th regional conference, reports Le360. A celebration hailed by Zaïna Id Hali, RNI deputy from Agadir. "Thanks to the Sovereign’s guidance, the celebration, for the first time, of the Amazigh New Year as a national holiday is a great day for all Amazighs," she commented.

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