The Moroccan Government

The Moroccan Government

• Government type: constitutional monarchy

• Capital: Rabat

• Independence: gained on the 2nd of March, 1956 (from France)

• Constitution: 10 March 1972, revised 4 September 1992, amended (to create
bicameral legislature) September 1996

• GDP - real growth rate: 6%

• composition by sector:
agriculture: 22.9%
industry: 35.5%
services: 41.5%

• Currency: Moroccan dirham (MAD)

• Exchange rates: Moroccan dirhams per US dollar - 9.5744

• Executive Branch: chief of state: King MOHAMED VI (since 30 July 1999)

head of government: Prime Minister Driss JETTOU (since 9 October 2002)

cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the monarch.
>No elections, the monarch is hereditary; prime minister appointed by the monarch following legislative elections

• Legislative Branch:
-bicameral Parliament :holds an upper house or Chamber of Counselors (270 seats; members elected indirectly by local councils, professional organizations, and labor syndicates for nine-year terms; one-third of the members are renewed every three years) and a lower house or Chamber of Representatives (325 seats; 295 by multi-seat constituencies and 30 from national lists of women; members elected by popular vote for five-year terms)

• Judicial Branch: consists of the Supreme Court. In the Supreme court, judges are appointed on the recommendation of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, presided over by the monarch.

• Major political parties: Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), Istiqlal (Independence) Party (PI), Party of Justice and Development (PJD), National Rally of Independents (RNI), Popular Movement (MP), National Popular Movement (MNP), Constitutional Union Party (UC), Democratic Forces Front, (FFD), National Democratic Party (PND), Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), Democratic Union (UD), Democratic and Social Movement (MDS), Social Democratic Party (PSD), The Pact (AHD), Liberty Alliance (ADL), United Socialist Leftists (GSU), Moroccan Liberal Party (PML), Party of Reform and Development (PRD), Citizen Forces (FC), National Itihadi (Unity) Congress (CNI), Party of Action (PA), Social Center Party (PCS), Party of Environment and Development (PED), Citizens Initiative for Development (ICD), Party of Renewal and Equity (PRE), Consultation and Independence Party (PCI), Advancing Democratic and Social Party (PAGDS).