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Moroccan parliament to examine 2027 budget on Friday and Saturday

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Morocco’s House of Representatives will hold plenary sessions on Friday and Saturday to examine and vote on draft finance bill No. 60.26 for 2027, according to a statement by the House cited by MAP. Debate will begin on Friday at 09:30 with the Finance Committee’s report, and the first part of the budget is due to be voted on Saturday.

Morocco’s House of Representatives will hold plenary sessions on Friday and Saturday to examine and vote on draft finance bill No. 60.26 for the 2027 financial year, according to a statement by the House cited by MAP. Proceedings will begin on Friday at 09:30 with the presentation of the report by the Finance and Economic Development Committee, followed by interventions from parliamentary groups, the parliamentary grouping and unaffiliated MPs as part of the general debate on the first part of the bill.

A second plenary session is scheduled for Friday from 14:00 to continue the general debate. Proceedings will resume on Saturday at 09:00 with the government’s response to interventions from parliamentary groups, the parliamentary grouping and unaffiliated MPs, followed by a vote on the first part of the finance bill.

The standing committees will then vote on sectoral budgets within their remit, before plenary sessions resume for the general debate on the second part, through presentations of the standing committees' reports on their examination of sectoral budgets and interventions from parliamentary groups. The vote on the second part will precede the vote on the finance bill for 2027 as a whole.

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