Morocco: We are ready to study the petition to stop normalization with Zionist entity
WORLD, Jan. 10 (YPA) – The Moroccan government said on Wednesday that it is ready to respond to a petition demanding Morocco to stop normalization with the Zionist entity, which human rights activists intend to submit.
The petition was signed by 10,000 people, while Moroccan human rights figures confirmed that the decision to “stop normalization is long overdue.”
These remarks were made by Mustafa Paytas, the Moroccan government spokesperson, when he was asked by a journalist at a seminar following the weekly cabinet meeting, about the intention of human rights defenders to submit a petition demanding an end to normalization with the entity.
The Moroccan government spokesman, who is also the minister in charge of relations with parliament, said the government was “ready to respond to the petition and study it.”
A petition for proposals or demands submitted to the Government Petitions Committee must be signed by 5,000 citizens.
It is noteworthy that this petition is one of the means available to citizens to demand that the government adopt a public policy or cancel agreements, and after its submission, the competent government committee is expected to accept or reject it, in accordance with the law regulating petitions.
Paytas also explained that “the submission of this petition must be done by the services of his ministry because he is the one who chairs the petitions committee (government).”
He added that “petitions are organized by the 2011 constitution, which gave this possibility to citizens, to express their opinions on development issues or petitions for legislation and laws.”
Paytas continued: “I head the National Committee for Petitions, and the petition is supposed to be placed with the committee at the headquarters of the ministry in charge of relations with Parliament.”
He indicated that he would react to the request, examine the petition within the framework of the Constitution and regulatory laws, and reflect the opinion taken by the Government in this area.
E.M