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Morocco’s government will step in to aid transit professionals and mitigate the effects of skyrocketing fuel prices worldwide. Morocco’s Transport and Logistics Minister, Mohamed Abdeljalil, announced the decision Monday, March 14, during a ministerial meeting.
The government is yet to announce a detailed plan on how it will directly provide support to transit professionals, Abdeljalil explained.
“Given the exponential circumstances, the government decided to intervene to support transit professionals, with the aim of preserving citizens’ purchasing power. We are in the process of studying the exact mode of the intervention,” Morocco’s Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch told the press after a meeting with professionals from the transportation sector.
With the presence of Morocco’s Economy and Finance Deputy Minister, who is in charge of the state budget, Faouzi Lakjaa the meeting focused on finding realistic solutions to mitigate the effect of rising fuel prices on consumer purchasing power.
The news comes days after transport professionals’ labor unions called for a nationwide halt of transit service for three days to protest increased oil prices.
The protests denounced “Authorities disregard for calls for dialogue between labor unions and relevant authorities to reach reasonable solutions for the hydrocarbons rising prices,” a union press release stated.
Rising oil prices have sparked a wave of protests among transportation professionals in recent months. The Tangier Tangier-based Moroccan Association of Transport and Logistics (AMTL), a labor union, called on transport professionals to raise transport fees by 20% last month, citing the rise in diesel prices.
The labor union retracted the call to increase fees just hours after the government decided to intervene. The government had promised the labor union that it will open a channel of dialogue with the sector to find reasonable solutions to the issue of rising prices.
