Our leaders have never subscribed to continuity. This contagious “custom” makes successive governments wobbly and inefficient. Each minister steals the show from the one who held the same position before.
In response to a question from the parliamentary group of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) in the House of Advisors, the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Miraoui, was shocked more d’un, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. He made an announcement that had the effect of a bomb. He declared without warning that the Bachelor’s system simply no longer exists in Moroccan universities.
He added that its implementation for certain courses was “experimental” and has not been generalized to all universities. That’s done. It is the same Bachelor system, this reform was initiated and put on track by his predecessor, Saaid Amzazi, who mobilized, for three years, great financial and human resources to achieve it. Then comes Mr. Miraoui who throws this reform into the dustbin of history. What money and energy have been expended! Never mind! The Minister of Higher Education thus announces the break with Amzazi’s reform plan and sets up a new plan which will, no doubt, be ignored by his successor.
It became a habit. A deleterious mania. The Minister of Tourism, Fatim-Zahra Ammor, did the same by revising the support measures for the sector contained in the program contract concluded on August 3, 2020, drawn up by her predecessor, Nadia Fettah Alaoui. Examples are not lacking. But for the nostalgic, we still remember the “industrial strategy” of Reda Chami, which was the form supplanted by the “Industrial acceleration” of Moulay Hafid Elalamy.
In short, this contagious “custom” makes successive governments wobbly and ineffective. Each minister steals the show from the one who held the same position before. It’s a way to attract the spotlight and mark your territory. Instead of acting in continuity for the development of the country and the conquest of the confidence of young people who are gradually cracking in the political game and governance, we prefer to think of our own interests rather than those of a whole nation. This individualism is also responsible for the absence of so-called transversal cooperation between the ministers of the same government.
The best a manager could have done was to talk about a five-year sectoral strategy, over five years. Then comes a new minister freshly appointed to bury forever the strategy of his predecessor. In short, our leaders have never subscribed to continuity. This is somewhat reminiscent of the refrain of certain crooked doctors who strive to convince that their “colleague” does not master his field in order to win a new client.
Unfortunately, this mentality has lasted far too long. It handicaps Morocco on the move and aspires to emergence. It will be necessary to register between rupture and continuity. This is the delicate point of balance that a government must find by continuing the reforms initiated by the former government, while circumventing, if necessary, a certain number of pitfalls.
One can change the style of governance by the dynamic instilled in one’s actions on the ground, but not by diametrically neglecting the strategic plans for the realization of which taxpayers’ money and “grey matters” have been mobilized.
