Morocco... Integrating Amazigh into vital sectors is among the government's priorities
The Moroccan government is completing the project of integrating Tamazight into a number of vital public sectors. The framing memorandum of the draft finance law for the fiscal year 2023 addressed by the Prime Minister to the ministerial sectors confirmed that activating the official character of Tamazight, in various aspects of public life, falls within the priorities of government action.
This comes, according to the memorandum seen by Sky News Arabia, which states as follows: "To activate the constitutional requirements, which requires the government, and with it the various stakeholders, to mobilize efforts and human, logistical and financial resources to ensure the implementation of the requirements of the Amazigh regulatory law ."
Eleven years have passed since the constitution of Tamazight in the Kingdom, while the current government program included a commitment to activating the official character of Tamazight, especially by creating a special fund and pumping it with a budget of one billion dirhams by 2025.
A roadmap for "Amazigh"
For the purpose of activating the official character of Tamazight, “the government has prepared a roadmap that includes 25 measures that include the integration of Tamazight into public administrations and services, education, health, justice, audiovisual media, communication, culture, and art,” adds the head of government’s memorandum.
The memorandum revealed that "the year 2023 will mark the launch of a project to allocate 300 Amazigh-speaking receptionists, to keep pace with people in the Kingdom's courts, hospitals and health centers. The pace of implementation of the rest of the procedures will also be increased during the same year."
In this context, the Adviser to the Prime Minister on the Amazigh file , Amina Ben Cheikh, confirmed, "This is a first stage for the employment of 300 staff in reception centers in all regions of Morocco, in courts, hospitals and clinics. As well as through employment through the allocation of financial positions in the state budget for this project, starting from next year.
Ben Sheikh added, in a statement to "Sky News Arabia", that in a second stage, "the provision of human resources, composed of the Amazigh language , will be generalized in all public facilities, with the aim of facilitating citizens' access and fulfilling their needs in public administrations with complete ease and ease."
The advisor to the Prime Minister on the Tamazight file considered that “the budget of any project will not be sufficient, rather the budget for activating the official character of Tamazight,” noting that “the important thing is to work and implement projects with what exists now, while demanding more, because Tamazight is not only a language of communication, but rather It goes deeper.”
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As part of the steps in the direction of rehabilitating the Amazigh language and culture, the national coordinator of the Amazigh Action Front (non-governmental), Mohieddine Hajjaj, says: "We noticed that the government, since its presentation of its program, gave clear indications in this regard, which was followed by several practical measures, including this The last action of employing the human element .”
Speaking to "Sky News Arabia", Hajjaj explained that "in light of the political will of this government to advance the Amazigh language, the financial envelope allocated for this is only a starting point, given that the current government has at least removed the Amazigh from zero dirhams since Morocco gained independence to A financial envelope, no matter how different it is in value compared to these large workshops.
For this reason, "we will agree in principle that the budget allocated to Amazigh will solve several problems associated with activating the official character of Amazigh, including the recruitment of human resources necessary for this activation, especially in the judiciary and public administrations," added the same source.
Strengthening national cohesion
Not far from this opinion, the Amazigh activist, Yassin Omran, says in his contact with "Sky News Arabia", that "there is a political and dynamic governmental desire to address the Amazigh issue file , but we register despite the good intentions that the current government has shown in positively dealing with Amazigh, that there is some delay in accelerating the pace of activating the official character of Tamazight in some institutional sectors.
The Amazigh actor and activist called on the Moroccan government to discriminate positively in favor of Tamazight, and to speed up the pace of activating the official character of Amazigh; Especially in education, the media, the judiciary, public administration and various aspects of public life,” in addition to “achieving cultural and linguistic justice to enhance the presence of the Amazigh language and to strengthen national cohesion .”
For his part, the national coordinator of the Amazigh Action Front, Mohieddine Hajjaj, warned the government actor to be aware that the Amazigh issue in its essence goes beyond the issue of downloading. non-speakers."
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