The modesty prints the openness of dirt groups to the civil and community environment

The subject of the level of the openness of dirt groups to their civil and community environment raises many questions, as only 228 dirt groups, out of 1503, were previously involved in openness projects regarding the topics of transparency, accountability and the right to obtain information, citizenship and digitization as well, pending the involvement of more than one thousand and two hundred remaining remaining dirt.

The data of the Moroccan network portal for open groups show that there are 52 programs to open up with these involved groups. 45 of them were approved, along with 391 projects for openness, while the implementation rate of these plans as a whole does not exceed 5 percent, by calculating the various programs announced at the national level by the parties involved.

This topic opens the door for discussion on what is related to the openness of dirt groups in the Kingdom to citizens, especially with regard to participatory democracy and activating the texts related to the right to obtain information, in addition to digitizing the services provided by these institutions whose general members are elected during the regional and local elections.

In his interaction with the topic, Rashid Lazrak, a professor of political science, said that “this reality highlights how local groups have become, in large part of them, do not think about the democracy of proximity, after taking decisions of concern to citizens in the hands of the guardianship authorities, including employment, state or even the central administration.”

In a statement to Hespress, he assured that “this reality applies even to the members of these collective councils, as they in turn vote on decisions issued by the higher authorities, without having a hand in formulating them,” explaining that “a number of services of groups that can be the subject of participatory democracy are also in the hands of the private sector, based on the principle of authorization.”

The same spokesman indicated that “in practice, there is a group of damages behind the moderation of the level of the development of the relationship between the collective administration and the citizen,” setting the example with “the demolitions that a group of neighborhoods know in the cities of Rabat and Casablanca is currently, as we find that members of local groups and citizens are equal in not realizing more accurate details regarding this file.”

He also pointed to the existence of “a number of obstacles to the openness of local and dirt groups to citizens, especially with regard to matters of participatory democracy, communication and the right to information, which in Morocco has not yet reached an advanced stage in downloading the contents of the constitutional document that provides for the principle of participation.”

In a related context, the electronic newspaper Hespress obtained a special statement from Lahcen Ait Al -Aqid, who is charged with obtaining information and the point of the Ait Melloul group on the program to support open dirt groups. The latter pointed out that “the numbers available to the hour of the hour show that we are still in the limits of 199 local groups involved in the open workshops, along with 12 regional councils and 17 workers and regions, out of 1503 dirt groups in the Kingdom.”

Ait Lahkid to Hespress talked about the experience of the Ait Melloul Group Council in the Souss-Massa region in this regard, explaining that “the percentage of the council’s completion of the openness plan for 2024 and 2025, which includes about 11 projects, today reaches 41 percent. These projects divided into 63 activities were prepared in partnership with local civil society, under the supervision of a specialized committee, and in the end, they charge areas of communication and obtaining information, citizenship and participatory democracy.

According to the same spokesman, “official national numbers that concern this issue highlight that a small number of open dirt groups are only available on openness programs. It also indicates that the absence of mandatory for the total groups in the Kingdom may reduce the latter’s involvement in these efforts.

He stressed to Hakeb “the importance of focusing on the support of these groups involved in open workshops to the time of the hour, pending the involvement of the other, by evoking the fact that an important percentage of local groups in Morocco are limited groups in terms of population and activity as well, which may make their thinking in the racism of openness and participatory not present until the time of the hour.”