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[00:00:21] proposed on this
[00:00:36] 6:30 PM on Alloula, good evening and welcome to this first
[00:00:41] quote, recurrent from news broadcast of the evening, here is the summary:
[00:00:45] sag, Morocco has switched back to
[00:00:48] it's about a little more than GMT time zone, a definitive return to legal time that
[00:00:51] outgoing deputies of is already making people happy, so this first Sunday of
[00:00:54] gentle transition, what changes in daily life and
[00:00:57] we asked the question to the first.
[00:01:07] serious legislative 2026, grouping on the expectations of those who make
[00:01:11] the country's driving force, the student community carries
[00:01:15] great aspirations, hope
[00:01:18] and reality on the ground, what face of Morocco is emerging on the benches of our
[00:01:22] universities, we'll tell you more in this
[00:01:24] newspaper, and what if the flavors of
[00:01:27] Morocco met those of France. this week, an institution of
[00:01:31] high gastronomy straight from Paris came to
[00:01:34] Escalarba, a gourmet blend of two traditions
[00:01:37] and excellent
[00:01:39] know-how.
[00:01:44] It's done, we've just experienced the very first day on legal time,
[00:01:48] a change that for many has translated into one word:
[00:01:51] relief. It's true that after 8 years, this transition has been
[00:01:55] long awaited, today it seems to be
[00:01:58] consensual among a large part... of the population, how did Moroccans
[00:02:02] experience these first GMT days? We collected some
[00:02:05] feelings. Khadija Jamali, with
[00:02:09] Basmarkshi. Morocco now lives on
[00:02:12] GMT time, this night, at 2
[00:02:18] than AM, the hands officially moved back 60 minutes. A change
[00:02:22] awaited by many citizens, they especially see
[00:02:24] mornings more in phase with daylight,
[00:02:28] in the street the...
[00:02:32] co-organized this conference alongside
[00:02:36] as a taxi driver, I noticed it every morning, with
[00:02:39] GMT+1, parents drove their children to
[00:02:43] school half asleep, sometimes even in
[00:02:46] darkness, darkness,
[00:02:49] precisely, with the return to
[00:02:52] parties, on the other hand the state of mind of GMT, mornings gain light, but
[00:02:55] behind the hands, it's also our
[00:02:58] biological clock that... finds its
[00:03:00] bearings,
[00:03:05] GMT+1 did not offer the best conditions for
[00:03:08] sleep, especially for children, legal time
[00:03:12] is more in phase with our biological clock while GMT+1
[00:03:15] required the body to adapt.
[00:03:18] After 8 years under the GMT+1
[00:03:22] regime, Morocco is therefore setting its clocks to
[00:03:26] the right time, a 60-minute change on the dials.
[00:03:30] and new habits to regain in daily
[00:03:32] life, let's move on to the decryption of
[00:03:36] the highlights of the week's news and it's like every Sunday with
[00:03:40] our consultant, Professor of Law and Political Scientist Mustafa Simis,
[00:03:44] good evening, good evening, we start with this affirmed support from
[00:03:47] Saudi Arabia following the attacks perpetrated on its soil
[00:03:51] by Houthi rebels in Yemen, this position taken by the kingdom was
[00:03:54] made on Thursday by Nassara Boyetta, it was during a
[00:03:57] meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations
[00:04:01] in New York, displaying its absolute solidarity
[00:04:04] with what message Rabat intends to send in a context of
[00:04:07] escalating violence in the Middle East? First, the facts,
[00:04:11] as you said, it is a conference that was
[00:04:14] proposed by Bahrain which is a non-permanent
[00:04:17] member of the Security Council, a conference that dealt with what theme, maritime
[00:04:20] security, this is a problem that remains fully
[00:04:24] relevant and on this occasion, there were a certain number of
[00:04:28] requirements of the labor communications made precisely on... the insecurity that
[00:04:31] prevails particularly in the straits of Hormuz
[00:04:34] and Bab el-Mandeb, so there was a Moroccan
[00:04:36] intervention with our Foreign Minister who
[00:04:40] reaffirmed if necessary the solidarity
[00:04:44] of the kingdom and absolute solidarity, even the term is
[00:04:47] strong, towards Saudi Arabia against aggressions,
[00:04:50] I quote, cowardly aggressions by the Houthis
[00:04:54] and against the holy city of Mecca
[00:04:56] uh, so it's important to note why? Because what's happening
[00:05:00] there is an attempt to control the Strait
[00:05:04] of Bab el-Mandeb, as you know, with the
[00:05:07] unresolved problem today of security on
[00:05:11] international straits. As our Foreign Minister said,
[00:05:14] the problem does not concern now, it concerns
[00:05:17] more international straits but concerns a problem
[00:05:21] of security uh that
[00:05:24] involves non-state actors in this case
[00:05:27] Houthis and
[00:05:30] so the Foreign Ministry
[00:05:34] subject, having said that, there is a need for mechanisms for prevention and crisis
[00:05:37] management and therefore total support from Saudi Arabia, I recall
[00:05:40] that on September 9th His Majesty the King had also
[00:05:44] addressed a message to King Abdullah of
[00:05:47] Jordan, about ten days ago against the
[00:05:51] heinous aggressions, I
[00:05:54] Iran against the brotherly country, so we are in a
[00:05:57] constant position of Morocco, so what does that stem from? It stems first from the
[00:06:01] privileged relations between Rabat and Riyadh, it is a
[00:06:05] strategic partnership that is historical that
[00:06:08] articulates around a certain number of points, the first is obviously the
[00:06:12] clear support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the kingdom,
[00:06:16] the second concerns the problems and requirements of
[00:06:19] security, of stability in the Gulf region
[00:06:23] and particularly in Saudi Arabia. The
[00:06:27] third axis looks
[00:06:30] at coordination on Arab-Islamic issues, and the
[00:06:33] last axis is economic cooperation, investment, there is a
[00:06:37] blockade, that's the situation, a targeted blockade,
[00:06:40] it was targeted against the...
[00:06:42] Israel, the United States, Great Britain, it has now been extended to
[00:06:46] Saudi Arabian ships. I remind you that
[00:06:49] this position of the kingdom was
[00:06:52] expressed about ten years ago during the
[00:06:55] participation of the King in the Morocco
[00:06:58] summit, Gulf Cooperation Council. A historic speech
[00:07:02] was given on this occasion on April 20,
[00:07:05] 2016, exactly, a speech that was an
[00:07:09] expression of a doctrine of
[00:07:11] sovereignty. forced global strategic solidarity
[00:07:14] and solidarity, meaning the sovereign had
[00:07:18] said, any threat against Morocco is a
[00:07:21] threat against the Gulf countries, and any threat against the Gulf countries is a
[00:07:25] threat against Morocco, so it's extremely and that's why it was interesting,
[00:07:29] this reminder, we're still on track, Professor, where Morocco
[00:07:32] co-organized on Thursday the world conference on the fight
[00:07:36] against hate speech through the promotion of inter-religious
[00:07:39] and intercultural dialogue and tolerance. Morocco
[00:07:44] the UN and the UN Alliance of Civilizations, a meeting
[00:07:48] that highlighted the leadership of His Majesty the King in the fight
[00:07:52] against hate speech and the promotion of tolerance. What
[00:07:55] makes Morocco a privileged UN actor on this
[00:07:59] issue? It must be recalled, Morocco
[00:08:02] which took the initiative more than 4 years ago for this
[00:08:06] world conference on the fight against hate speech and the
[00:08:10] promotion of inter-religious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance,
[00:08:14] it is Morocco that initiated this format, and it was
[00:08:17] where, it was on the occasion of a meeting, it was the first by the way
[00:08:21] in November 2022, so almost
[00:08:24] 4 years ago, so we are still in this same perimeter with
[00:08:27] avant-garde positions and Morocco organized this
[00:08:31] with the UN precisely at the United
[00:08:34] Nations headquarters in New York, it was extremely important so it's
[00:08:38] a
[00:08:41] it's a position taken by... Morocco that revolves around a certain number of points,
[00:08:45] which ones? The urgency of collective action,
[00:08:48] the minister insisted on the need to preserve
[00:08:52] human dignity, protect societies from rejection and
[00:08:55] division, he also referred to a number
[00:08:59] of fears that are fueled by what? By ignorance and
[00:09:03] prejudice and that are exploited by extremist
[00:09:06] currents, he also, Mr. Moutta also
[00:09:10] sounded the alarm about what he called the... trivialization of
[00:09:13] hatred, a big problem, and then he recalled
[00:09:16] Morocco's commitments in domestic and foreign
[00:09:20] policy, in domestic policy it is codified in which text? In the supreme
[00:09:23] law, the 2011 constitution,
[00:09:26] which translates a commitment to
[00:09:29] dialogue, tolerance, coexistence, but we find in this
[00:09:32] constitution the principle of national identity which is
[00:09:36] unified but plural, also the attachment to universal
[00:09:39] values, and then the fact that the...
[00:09:43] guarantees the free exercise of religions, in our
[00:09:46] constitution, in its preamble, there is a precise reference
[00:09:50] to the Moroccan identity which is Arab-Islamic,
[00:09:53] Amazigh, Saharan, but also open to
[00:09:56] African, Andalusian, Hebrew and Mediterranean influences,
[00:10:00] that's why Morocco's credibility for this
[00:10:03] interreligious dialogue
[00:10:07] and even intercivilizational and with the leadership obviously and the enlightened
[00:10:11] vision of the sovereign. Then on the internal front, only one
[00:10:15] issue dominates the news, the legislative elections. We are only
[00:10:18] 3 days away from the vote which is entering its
[00:10:22] final stretch, we see political parties multiplying
[00:10:25] their outings to reach a wider electorate, an electorate in search
[00:10:29] of alternatives and very concrete
[00:10:33] answers to its concerns, what are today the major
[00:10:36] issues that emerge from this
[00:10:40] election beyond the renewal of the 395 seats in
[00:10:44] parliament? So 2 days before the end of the election
[00:10:46] campaign on Tuesday at midnight, what is the situation
[00:10:50] like? First the candidates, there are 728 candidates
[00:10:54] for the Representatives, that's 18
[00:10:58] candidates per seat, it's higher than in 2000
[00:11:02] 2021 and 2016 where this rate was
[00:11:05] 17, 17 candidates per seat, there is
[00:11:09] also another fact,
[00:11:13] half of the
[00:11:16] the House of Representatives are running again, it's
[00:11:18] interesting, so we'll see what the re-election rate of these
[00:11:22] outgoing deputies will be, there are also 15 ministers who
[00:11:26] are candidates, we'll follow that closely too, it's obvious
[00:11:29] that a candidate minister who is not re-elected must
[00:11:33] approach the future of his political career differently, and
[00:11:37] then the campaign now, the campaign is in
[00:11:40] extreme mobilization now, it takes place on
[00:11:43] two levels with traditional forms, these are
[00:11:46] rallies, meetings, etc., we see it, but also essentially, it seems to
[00:11:49] me, on social networks, social networks with, moreover,
[00:11:53] many excesses on social networks
[00:11:56] and notably excesses targeting women candidates, which is totally
[00:12:00] regrettable, moreover, there are legal proceedings initiated by
[00:12:03] women candidates, concerning what has been said on a certain number of social networks, the
[00:12:07] themes of this campaign, the dominant theme is obviously
[00:12:11] purchasing power, we must add the social question and
[00:12:15] also the moralization of public life, better
[00:12:18] governance and then dignity, it's a theme that has come up for
[00:12:21] a certain number of parties, dignity is what as it is: inter
[00:12:25] it's access to public services, it's full
[00:12:29] citizenship implies that an administered, a user
[00:12:32] can easily access public services
[00:12:35] so the question that remains is
[00:12:39] this, first question, the turnout, in
[00:12:42] 2021 we had 43.7 %, in
[00:12:46] 2000, 2021, c 2016,
[00:12:49] 2021 had 50.2 %,
[00:12:52] but on September 8, 2021, three votes must be
[00:12:55] recalled, communal, regional, etc., so I doubt
[00:12:59] that there will be the
[00:13:02] reiteration of this 50% rate, but the
[00:13:06] general feeling is that on one hand there is
[00:13:09] candidate mobilization with a high number of candidates per seat
[00:13:13] 18 and the mobilization of political
[00:13:17] public opinion is not very favorable, we see that for a large
[00:13:20] mobilization, now the stakes, the stakes are about
[00:13:24] deciding. to designate parties that can
[00:13:27] form a majority, in the current
[00:13:30] scheme, we thought before the
[00:13:34] election campaign a kind of re-election of the three outgoing
[00:13:37] majority parties with an opening that would be towards
[00:13:41] such and such a party, that is no longer the case today due to the fact that the PAM for
[00:13:44] example says that it says this, whether
[00:13:48] I am first or second, I will not make any alliance with the
[00:13:51] RNI, so here is a breakdown of the majority on... important and that's
[00:13:55] why it's interesting to see what the election
[00:13:58] score will be, why? Because the first party to come
[00:14:01] out on top is responsible for leading the
[00:14:05] government, His Majesty on the basis of article 47,
[00:14:08] head of government, someone from the party that comes first
[00:14:12] will decide on Wednesday or Thursday evening at the latest,
[00:14:15] thank you Professor Simi for your input.
[00:14:19] a few days before the legislative elections, we held
[00:14:22] out the microphone to students who also have great
[00:14:25] aspirations, training and higher education
[00:14:28] remain however less visible in the electoral
[00:14:31] programs, a finding all the more alarming as Morocco would devote
[00:14:35] only 1% of its GDP to scientific
[00:14:38] research compared to 2% in several other countries, what
[00:14:41] priority does the student community expect from future deputies
[00:14:45] Samirasban,
[00:14:50] a training adapted to the needs and
[00:14:53] market, that's what the student
[00:14:56] community wants? A demand it puts forward for this
[00:14:59] election and that it wishes to be at the center of the priorities of the next
[00:15:03] executive. This is one of the current ones, Dehra, 23
[00:15:07] years old, master's student and only one dream in mind, a
[00:15:10] training that opens the doors to the job market.
[00:15:13] plois.
[00:15:17] Training must really adapt to the needs of the labor market. There are
[00:15:21] several sectors and specializations in educational institutions.
[00:15:25] But once the diploma is in hand, it's difficult to get a
[00:15:28] job, in addition to that, improving the quality of
[00:15:32] training, in the face of the challenges imposed by new technologies and
[00:15:35] artificial intelligence,
[00:16:07] the political parties that will form the next government must take the issue of
[00:16:11] higher education very seriously. We cannot talk
[00:16:14] about an employment-generating economy without a training offer capable of strengthening
[00:16:18] students' skills in order to facilitate their integration into the
[00:16:21] labor market. It will also be necessary to invest in the
[00:16:24] infrastructure of scientific research and its
[00:16:27] modernization, while promoting openness to
[00:16:30] business.
[00:16:32] So many challenges to overcome, to date, the budget allocated to scientific
[00:16:36] research does not exceed 1% of
[00:16:39] GDP while in other countries the average is 2
[00:16:43] %.
[00:16:46] also answered the call to the polls, nearly 4 million
[00:16:49] German voters from the city-state of Berlin, Dulmen,
[00:16:53] Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania voted
[00:16:57] today for their regional representatives, two
[00:17:00] elections where the advances of the far-right AfD party and the radical
[00:17:03] left could cause new tremors
[00:17:08] and affect Chancellor Frederic Merz, already
[00:17:10] weakened. Let's remember that the far-right Alternative for Germany party,
[00:17:14] pro-Trump and close to Moscow, had inflicted two
[00:17:18] weeks ago a resounding defeat on the conservative
[00:17:21] CDU party in Saxony,
[00:17:25] also in the eastern part of the country, its
[00:17:27] stronghold.
[00:17:31] In the Middle East, the escalation of violence continues against
[00:17:34] Saudi Arabia, whose capital was targeted for the first time in
[00:17:38] months by the Houthis of Yemen. The United States
[00:17:41] fears a rapid escalation of hostilities, strong
[00:17:45] explosions resonated in the Saudi capital twice yesterday
[00:17:48] near a fuel depot, yet the logo of the
[00:17:51] Saudi oil giant Aramco is less
[00:17:55] near the airport.
[00:18:00] The standoff between the United States and Iran intensified over the reopening
[00:18:04] of the Strait of Hormuz. In the Iranian camp, Tehran's chief
[00:18:08] negotiator affirmed today that his country had transmitted its conditions
[00:18:12] to the United States for the reopening of this strategic maritime
[00:18:15] corridor. The Iranian conditions had been transmitted to the
[00:18:18] United States via Qatar, mediator of the conflict, and would
[00:18:22] be based, according to Iranian officials, on the end of the war on all
[00:18:25] fronts, the unblocking of frozen Iranian funds and the lifting
[00:18:29] of the American naval blockade. According to Mohammed
[00:18:32] Berlibaf, as long as these conditions are not met and
[00:18:36] commitments are not respected, it will be
[00:18:39] impossible to return to the situation prior to the negotiations and to
[00:18:43] the and to the opening of the
[00:18:44] strait.
[00:18:49] Back to Morocco, gourmets, these 6 dishes will delight your taste
[00:18:53] buds, a prestigious Parisian culinary school made a stop this
[00:18:56] week at the Mohammed VI Tower in Rabat, on the menu,
[00:19:00] unprecedented demonstrations around the classics of Moroccan culinary
[00:19:03] art at the crossroads of great refinement.