Hassan Tariq calls for more targeted Moroccan legislation
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Matin
Morocco’s new secretary general of the government, Hassan Tariq, is calling on MPs to limit the systematic use of legislation and favour targeted regulatory action. During a meeting on 5 November with the Justice and Legislation Committee, he presented his working method based on institutional partnership, according to Le Matin.
Morocco’s secretary general of the government, Hassan Tariq, invited MPs on the Justice and Legislation Committee on Thursday 5 November 2026 to “resist the temptation” of “regulatory determinism”, the reflex of turning to legislation whenever a problem appears on the public agenda. Before the committee, where he sat as an MP during the 2011-2016 legislative term, the constitutional expert appointed by King Mohammed VI to head the General Secretariat of the Government (SGG), replacing Mohamed Hajoui, called for “surgical, intelligent and precise” legislative intervention to avoid “a form of legislative and legal inflation”.
Hassan Tariq illustrated his point with a specific matter examined by the committee: a bill amending an article of the Dahir of 12 August 1913 forming the Code of Obligations and Contracts (DOC), which the committee has been referred for a second reading. Such texts, “rooted in time”, require, in his view, “a colossal doctrinal effort”, and amending them requires “a great deal of caution, trembling hands and a great deal of legislative governance”.
The new head of the SGG presented the meeting as a “partnership” between his institution and the committee, “two powers constitutionally governed by the principles of cooperation and balance”, relegating the sectoral budget figures to the final minutes of his intervention.
