Lawyer Almo: Absolute disregard for the constitutional status of the Amazigh language in the draft civil procedure law
Draft Law No. 02.23 on Civil Procedure, recently approved by the Government Council, ignored the Amazigh language as an official language of the state.
There was an absolute absence of the constitutional status of Amazigh as an official language in this project, which took into account the observations raised, presented by the Minister of Justice, Abdel Latif Wehbe.
Lawyer at the Rabat Authority, Mohamed Almo, said that Draft Law No. 02.23 related to civil procedure, which the government approved last Thursday, is one of the projects that came to implement the recommendations of the Justice System Reform Charter, and is also considered one of the most important laws in the judicial system.
Almo added in a statement to “The Amazigh World” that “through initial examination of the provisions of this project, it appears that there is an absolute absence of the constitutional status of Amazigh as an official language, as if the makers of this law do not know that there is a constitution that recognizes the official status of this language and that there are legislative and governmental measures intended to ensure the integration of “The Amazigh language is integrated into the justice system, both horizontally and vertically, to ensure the rights of citizens to litigate in the language they understand.”
The Amazigh lawyer and activist stressed that everyone was waiting for the embodiment of the state’s will to integrate the Amazigh language into the most important public workshops. “Unfortunately, we lost the bet at the first and most important test for the constitutional implementation of the Amazigh language’s official status,” the speaker said.
He also stressed that “this legislative neglect constitutes a denial of the requirements of the regulatory law on the officialization of the Amazigh language, which obligated the state to a schedule of measures that must be taken to ensure the effective introduction of the Amazigh language in the justice sector.”
He pointed out that Article 30 of the aforementioned regulatory law stipulates the integration of this language into the field of litigation, through the state guaranteeing Amazigh-speaking litigants and witnesses the right to use this language and communicate in it during search and investigation procedures, including the interrogation stage before the Public Prosecution, investigation procedures, and hearing procedures. In the courts, including research, supplementary investigations, pleadings, reporting procedures, appeals, and implementation.
Lawyer Mohamed Elmo concluded his statement to “The Amazigh World” by saying: “These procedures cannot be guaranteed except by stipulating them in the procedural laws regulating litigation procedures, the Civil Procedure Code being the most prominent of them.”
ithri Montassir
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