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00:00Good evening and welcome to Mediain TV, thank you for joining us for a new newscast, here are the headlines.
00:21The Minister of Economy and Finance has presented the main lines of the 2025 finance bill in front of the two chambers of parliament.
00:31Nadia Ftahallaoui has presented the main lines of the text built around four priorities.
00:36In his recent report on the Moroccan Sahara, Antonio Guterres has for the first time highlighted the Atlantic vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
00:46Back to the UN Secretary-General's statement in a moment.
00:52The Israeli army continues its attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
00:56In the south of the Lebanese capital, Tsaala has called on the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Harek to evacuate the area.
01:06In Morocco, the Minister of Economy and Finance has presented the main lines of the 2025 finance bill
01:12in front of the two chambers of parliament.
01:16In his recent report on the Moroccan Sahara, Antonio Guterres has for the first time highlighted the Atlantic vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
01:30Reform, fiscal measures, taxation of profits, the main lines of the 2025 finance bill.
01:36The state budget project focuses on four main axes.
01:40The first concerns the strengthening of the social state, with as a priority the generalization of social protection and direct aid to about 4 million households.
01:49The text also focuses on the reform of the health and education system, while continuing the reconstruction of the areas damaged by the earthquake.
01:58The second axis aims to stimulate private and public investment, in particular via the investment charter and projects with clean energies.
02:05Water management in response to the needs of the country is also prioritized, as is the preparation for the World Cup 2030.
02:12The third pillar concerns structural reforms, including the modernization of justice and the digitization of judicial administration.
02:20The sustainability of public finances is at the heart of the fourth axis, with measures to reduce the budget deficit and stabilize finances.
02:28The bill envisages a growth rate exceeding 4% and a controlled inflation for 2025.
02:35The government estimates a growth rate of 4.6% in 2025.
02:40These forecasts are subject to several factors.
02:43First, inflation, which should be 2%.
02:46The external demand for phosphate and its derivatives, which should increase by 3.2%.
02:51Agricultural yield, which is close to 70 million quintals.
02:55And the price of a ton of butane, which would be around 500 dollars per ton.
03:01The preparation of this project is taking place in a difficult international context,
03:07marked by the pursuit of geopolitical tensions and the accentuation of climate crises.
03:13Despite this situation, Morocco has been able, under the clear guidance of His Majesty the King,
03:19to pursue economic and social reforms while preserving the sustainability of macroeconomic balances.
03:26This financial law project also focuses on four priorities,
03:30each acting as a lever to consolidate social cohesion,
03:34immunize economic sovereignty and bring together the necessary conditions for the prosperity of future generations.
03:44The PLF 2025 envisages the creation of 28,906 budget posts,
03:48distributed between the various ministries and other public institutions.
03:52The majority of these new posts are allocated to the Ministry of the Interior, which will benefit from 7,744 posts.
03:58The Ministry of Health and Social Protection will receive 6,500 posts,
04:03while the Ministry of Economy and Finance will receive 2,600 posts.
04:07In addition, the National Defense Administration will receive 5,792 posts.
04:13The Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation will receive 1,759 posts
04:19and the General Delegation to Penitentiary Administration and Reinsertion will receive 1,000 posts.
04:25In addition, 400 posts will be allocated to the Ministry of Habeas and Islamic Affairs,
04:29365 to the Ministry of National Education, Pre-School and Sports,
04:34and 350 to the Superior Council of the Judiciary.
04:37The PLF also envisages 500 budgetary posts under the authority of the head of government,
04:43which will be able to distribute them between various ministries or institutions.
04:46Among these, 200 posts are reserved for people with disabilities.
04:51Finally, the government had planned the creation of 30,043 posts as part of the Finance Law 2024.
05:03To come back to the main lines of the Finance Law 2025 project,
05:06we are live with Hassan Arafi, Professor of Public Finance at the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences,
05:12Mohamed V of Rabat. Good evening.
05:16Good evening, Madam. Good evening, everyone.
05:19To begin with, what should be taken away from the presentation of Nadia Ftahalawi in front of the two chambers of the Parliament?
05:27What should be taken away is that there are two essential elements.
05:30The first is the hypotheses on which the design of the Finance Law project for the year 2025 was first built.
05:42The second is to recall the issues that will frame the budgetary use of public spending,
05:48including some fiscal measures that will be adopted as part of this Finance Law project.
05:57As for the macroeconomic hypotheses on which the Ministry of Finance is based
06:07to establish the Finance Law project on balancing elements,
06:13first of all, they set for an economic growth rate estimated at 4.6% and an inflation rate of around 2%.
06:24So we can say that it is a level of inflation that is manageable.
06:29There is an increase in foreign demand, 3.2% of which is derived from phosphate, as mentioned in your report.
06:38And also, among the elements on which it is based, it is of course an agricultural harvest of around 70 million quintals
06:47and a gross average of 500 dollars per tonne.
06:52So these are the elements that have framed the macroeconomic framework of the development of the Finance Law.
07:00In the second place, the Finance Law project, as you mentioned earlier,
07:07is based on four issues, or four axes, if you like.
07:12The first is the pursuit of the consolidation of the social state,
07:16whether it is at the level of the process of generalization of social protection,
07:21i.e. the generalization of work, the implementation of unemployment benefits,
07:27and the generalization of retirement benefits.
07:33This consolidation also aims to affect the health sector through certain reforms,
07:39notably the operationalization of the legal arsenal adopted on the basis of the generalization of social protection,
07:46the strengthening of the health service,
07:49and we also see that the Ministry of Health would be endowed with more than 32 billion dirhams.
07:58And we are now in the hands of the school and university sector,
08:01which constitutes an essential element in this concept,
08:08with an additional budget for the Ministry of National Education of 11 billion dirhams
08:13and an envelope of 16.4 billion dirhams for higher education.
08:18So the most important element here, and I think it is highly anticipated by the population,
08:24is how the project of the financial law will have been able to master the purchasing power.
08:34And so, it is already highlighted in the speech of Madame la Ministre
08:39that the compensation fund will be endowed with 16.5 billion dirhams,
08:49and also, I think it is good news for the salary,
08:54there will be a revision of the employment on income,
08:57the marginal rate will be reduced to 37%,
09:03there is also an exoneration for income of less than 6 billion dirhams,
09:08it was only 3 billion dirhams before, which is very important.
09:14And also, the TVA will know a toilet,
09:19by adopting an exoneration of import operations of a certain amount of animals,
09:27in order to control inflation at the level of consumption of red meat.
09:32And so, there are a lot of details here, we don't have time to go into it.
09:36So, the second element, the second issue that was highlighted in the speech of Madame la Ministre,
09:46is the consolidation of the dynamics of investment and employment creation.
09:50And as you know, this is a big challenge, with the new development model.
09:56So, the State will try to put in place a new economic growth model,
10:03more focused on growth.
10:06Yes, Madame?
10:07So, the question of employment is also at the heart of this presentation of the Minister of Finance.
10:12Employment creation is today one of the biggest socio-economic challenges in Morocco, isn't it?
10:18Yes, yes, absolutely.
10:20Because we can't hope for that.
10:24I'll give you a very simple equation to understand this issue.
10:28We have almost 11 million assets.
10:31The public sector cannot cover more than 1 million of the population having the ability to work.
10:39And the millions will only have to work in the private sector.
10:42And so, it is true that the project of the Financial Law provides for 28,000 jobs,
10:47whether they are new recruits or promotion, etc.
10:51But it remains tiny compared to the global problem of employment.
10:56And so, on this issue of employment, I think I listened to Madame la Ministre's speech
11:03by saying that she considers this as an absolute priority.
11:08It can only be so.
11:11We are planning three axes.
11:14The first axis aims to stimulate the dynamic of investment,
11:17because we can't have employment without investment.
11:22So, investment is the main input to promote employment.
11:27The second axis will focus on the improvement of the impact of active programs
11:32for employment and the strengthening of the training system.
11:37So, there are a lot of best practices that we can take inspiration from.
11:42And the third axis will focus on measures aimed at mitigating the consequences of unemployment.
11:47So, among the things they intend to provide,
11:52it is compensation for unemployment, etc.
11:57But the most important, this axis of employment,
12:00but employment is only a consequence, it is not a measure.
12:03It is a consequence of the reactivation of the investment process.
12:09This is what I can say on the issue of employment.
12:12So, the aim of employment is not the employment in the public sector,
12:17the sector of administration.
12:19There is not much to add.
12:23We always go back to the same figures, the 30,000, a little more, a little less.
12:29But the most important is employment in the private sector.
12:33It can only be done through direct investment,
12:36or what His Majesty the King had called productive investment.
12:41So, the third element, the third issue in the intervention of Madame the Minister
12:49is to continue the implementation of structural reforms,
12:52when I say structural reforms,
12:54which have the capacity to disrupt and review the entire economic-institutional system of Morocco,
13:03either through the strengthening of the reforms that have already been introduced
13:07within the framework of justice,
13:09and in particular the institutional independence of the judiciary,
13:12as mentioned in the report,
13:15or also the reform of public institutions.
13:19We know that there is already a law for the reform of the sector of public institutions,
13:25which is budgetary, which takes up a large part of the state's investment budget,
13:29and the modernization of the administration,
13:32so that it is a tool and a support for the economy, a support for the investor.
13:37And there is also the introduction of advanced regionalization.
13:41It is a gigantic project, it is a social project.
13:44His Majesty the King has not ceased to recall the centrality of this project
13:49through several discourses and orientations.
13:52And so, this sector, I think, is part of an entire import of what is expected of the Dual Renote,
13:59in particular through the judicial performance,
14:02by considering an increase in the share of the material
14:09dedicated to total collectivity,
14:13by increasing it by two points.
14:16This is very good news for territorial collectivities,
14:20and also the allocation of an annual budget for the regions of 10 million dirhams.
14:25And so, this reinforces the state's willingness to support decentralization,
14:31to reinforce advanced regionalization.
14:35The last element in the intervention before the representatives of the nation,
14:42the representatives of the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Councils,
14:48is the maintenance of the sustainability of public finances.
14:52I think this is always an axis, it is an element in all projects of the law of finance,
14:57because without the sustainability of public finances,
15:00we will not have the credibility of all the discourse we are conveying.
15:05And so, this is the reason why the Minister insisted
15:09that we should control the budget deficit,
15:12trying to be around 4% of GDP.
15:17It must be reduced by half a point, to 3.5%,
15:25in the hope that it will be stabilized at 3% in 2026.
15:33Also, in the application of fixed priorities,
15:37it is expected to reach a growth rate of 4.6% in 2025,
15:44against 3%.
15:48This is very ambitious.
15:50They will monitor and control the level of debt.
15:57The debt that the Minister is talking about is only the treasury debt,
16:05so that it is below 70%,
16:09according to the standards of Maastricht, the universal standards of debt control.
16:16He did not forget to mention that we must find the necessary financial margins
16:23to continue the different development projects,
16:29while maintaining the dynamics of public investment
16:34as an essential lever for the consolidation of the pillars of the social state.
16:39This is what I could say as a comment
16:43on the intervention of the Minister earlier.
16:46Thank you, Professor Hassan Harafi.
16:49I remind you that you are a professor of public finance
16:51at the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences,
16:54Mohamed V de Rabat.
16:56Thank you, Madam. Have a good evening.
16:59We continue this news.
17:01In his report on the Moroccan Sahara,
17:03the UN Secretary-General for the first time highlighted
17:06the Atlantic vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
17:09In this document presented to the Security Council,
17:11he highlighted a royal initiative
17:14that aims to make the Moroccan Sahara
17:16a regional economic hub,
17:18facilitating exchanges between sub-Saharan Africa
17:21and the rest of the world.
17:22I invite you to listen to the answer of Yasmin Hasnaoui,
17:24Professor of International Relations at the American University of Kuwait.
17:29First of all, we must say that Morocco adopts a multidimensional approach.
17:35Apart from the diplomatic path of negotiations,
17:38Morocco plays this role of economic cooperation
17:42and shared growth.
17:45It is in this context that several major projects are included,
17:48which are implemented by the King of Morocco,
17:51which are the Gasoduc Morocco-Nigeria initiative,
17:55the royal initiative aimed at promoting access
17:58to these countries of the Sahel to the Atlantic,
18:02and thus the port of Tarlac.
18:04It should be remembered that it represents a future South-South hub.
18:09The UN considers the Moroccan Sahara
18:13as a space for Atlantic cooperation and complementarity
18:17in the service of these African countries,
18:20in particular the Sahel countries.
18:22This is why we have seen
18:24and this has led to more than a hundred UN member countries,
18:30two-thirds of the African Union members
18:33and more than 19 members of the European Union
18:36to be interested in collaborating with Morocco
18:39in the economic and social sphere
18:41in this part of Morocco, the Moroccan Sahara.
18:45Moreover, this is why we have seen
18:47in the last four years
18:50the opening of more than thirty consulates
18:53in Dakhla and Ayun,
18:54so Morocco is the most suitable and most armed country
18:58to play this economic role towards Africa.
19:04The security cooperation between Morocco and Spain
19:07continues to bear fruit.
19:09Yesterday in Spain, the police arrested
19:11two presumed individuals,
19:12members of the terrorist organization Daesh.
19:14An arrest was carried out following an operation
19:16conducted in coordination with the General Directorate
19:19of Territorial Surveillance.
19:21The suspects were arrested in the cities of Itzasandoe and Avilés
19:24for their presumed involvement
19:26in indoctrinating crimes,
19:28spreading terrorist propaganda
19:30and inciting people to commit violent acts.
19:35Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the allies of Iran
19:37who tried to assassinate him after a drone strike
19:40targeting his private residence.
19:41Earlier in the day, the Israeli Prime Minister's private residence
19:44located in the center of Israel, in Caesaree,
19:46was targeted by a drone shot from Lebanon.
19:48An announcement made this Saturday by the Israeli army.
19:51The Lebanese Hezbollah claimed rocket shots
19:54carried out in retaliation for Israeli attacks
19:57targeting several regions of the country.
19:59In a town in eastern Lebanon,
20:01four people were killed today in an Israeli strike.
20:04Tzahal called on the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Harek,
20:07located south of Beirut, to evacuate the area.
20:12Meanwhile, Israel continues its military offensive.
20:15In Gaza, more than 43,000 civilians
20:17were killed in Israeli bombings.
20:19Strikes continue despite the death of Hamas leader
20:22Yehya Sinwar.
20:23The Palestinian movement indicates that the hostages
20:25detained in the Gaza Strip
20:27will only be released if Israel ends its aggression.
20:30Hamas intends to continue the fight
20:32until the liberation of Palestine.
20:37The ministers of defense of the G7
20:39are concerned today by the threats
20:41aimed at the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
20:44As a reminder, La Finule accuses Israel
20:46of deliberately targeting its positions
20:48in southern Lebanon.
20:49Four Blue Helmets were killed
20:51in one of the Israeli attacks.
20:52Meanwhile, the ministers of defense of the G7
20:54have reaffirmed on Saturday
20:56their unwavering support for Ukraine,
20:58including on the military level.
21:00We underline our intention to continue
21:02to provide aid to Ukraine,
21:04including military aid, in the short and long term.
21:09Algerian activists express their fear
21:11about the presumed disappearance
21:13of the journalist-writer Hicham Aboud.
21:15According to the newspaper L'Observateur,
21:17the journalist who lives in France
21:19took the plane to Paris to go to Spain
21:21before disappearing.
21:22The newspaper cites its friend and Algerian opponent
21:24Anwar Melek, who received a call
21:26from Hicham Aboud's lawyer,
21:28confirming that there is no trace of the opponent.
21:30The Algerian journalist Walid Kebir
21:32also expressed himself on social media
21:34expressing his fears about his disappearance.
21:39Back in Morocco, the 24th edition
21:41of the Tangier Film Festival continues.
21:43The coup d'envoi was given yesterday
21:45in the city of Détroit,
21:46in the presence of eminent figures
21:48in the world of the 7th art, culture and media.
21:50This great cultural rendezvous
21:52continues until October 26.
21:56And after the tributes,
21:58the competition takes place.
22:00What was the program of this day?
22:02Our special envoy on site,
22:04Hila Mbrada, tells us more.
22:06They really have a lot,
22:08a lot of steps on the Pope's board
22:10because it's really an exceptional selection
22:12this year.
22:14Besides, the competition has already started
22:16and it's been going on for 15 hours
22:18since the screening of the last film
22:20in competition.
22:22So, as I was saying,
22:24a rather special and unique selection
22:26this year because
22:28we find great names from Moroccan cinema
22:30who come back with their new films.
22:32This is the case, for example,
22:34of Saad Chraibi,
22:36the Silence of the Violins,
22:38the case of Hassan Ben Jeloun,
22:40the Last Malah.
22:42There is a lot of music.
22:44Jabel Belmjdoub with his new film
22:46after five years
22:48because he was there in 2019.
22:50Ousib Nsaidi, Desert,
22:52which was presented
22:54during the last edition of the Marrakech Festival.
22:56And of course,
22:58this new generation of filmmakers
23:00who are there, who are present.
23:02Hicham Nzraq, Esmel Moudir,
23:04and just to remind the public
23:06of Median TV, Esmel Moudir is the first
23:08Moroccan director to have
23:10won the Golden Star
23:12for his documentary.
23:14He is the mother of all lies.
23:16Hicham Nzraq also won
23:18the Grand Prix of the jury
23:20during the last edition
23:22of the International Festival
23:24of Marrakech.
23:26So we have a very unique selection.
23:28And what is also important
23:30to note here,
23:32is that when you talk a little
23:34to these directors who are there in competition,
23:36whether in the feature film,
23:38short film, documentary category,
23:40they all speak
23:42Moroccan today.
23:44They count on a very, very beautiful
23:46relief of Moroccan cinema.
23:48There is nothing to be afraid of,
23:50because the producers are there,
23:52they accompany the filmmakers,
23:54whether with large projects or small projects.
23:56So the Moroccan 7th art
23:58is doing well.
24:00So the jury will really have bread
24:02on the table for this
24:0424th edition of the
24:06Tanger Film National Festival.
24:08I obviously remind you that, for example,
24:10this is a feature film,
24:12it is none other than Mohamed Koftakel,
24:14who is a regular at the festival
24:16because he had the opportunity
24:18to win two Grand Prix.
24:20So during the whole week,
24:22here at the Palais des Congrès,
24:24all the projections of the film
24:26in competition take place here
24:28from 3 p.m.
24:30And remember all the same
24:32that from 9.30 p.m.
24:34every day here,
24:36it is another category that is presented
24:38of Moroccan cinema.
24:40These are the films that have not been selected
24:42for the competition,
24:44but which have been produced
24:46during the last 12 months
24:48and which will therefore be presented
24:50to this public who loves
24:52Moroccan cinema so much
24:54and who came very, very many
24:56precisely for this 24th edition
24:58of the Tanger Film National Festival.
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