It seems that the dialogue between the government and notaries reached the impasse, due to the desire to roof fees, based on recommendations contained in the report of the Competition Council, as they decided to escalate their protest steps after they launched a national strike at the end of last February.

In view of what it called "the government not responding to its refusal demand for roofing fees", the National Authority of Notaries decided to continue its protest forms in order to "extract the rights of the notary and citizens regarding a uniform fee tariff at the national level, as the notarized person has no right to meet fees that are less or more than the specified tariff. By decree. "

According to the aforementioned body, it has also been decided to take a national strike by completely closing all bureaucracy offices of Moroccan authenticators, with protest stops before the various courts of appeal, with the conclusion of the month of March with a national vigil in front of the Ministry of Justice.

In the face of this conflict between the notaries and the government, civil society actors believe that the prices provided by the government remain fictional and unreasonable, which necessitates their roofing, especially with regard to vulnerable social groups.

"As events we demand roofing prices in relation to economic and social housing that relates to broad vulnerable groups," Mohamed Arabi, vice-president of the Moroccan Association for Consumer Protection, said in a statement to the online newspaper, Hespress.

In his statement, the same spokesman stressed that the price must be determined and reasonable by the notaries "to assist citizens in purchasing housing stores within the framework of the economic and social housing that wide groups of Moroccans who suffer from fragility resort to."

There is great anger among the notaries, who rose up against the Competition Council, which indicated that their fees had been set, and stipulated in his opinion submitted to the government not to exceed the tariff, as they considered this "a void of Article 15 of Law 32.09", pointing out that this opinion would " It makes every notary underestimate the fees of editing contracts, thus killing the profession on the pretext of free competition and competition among notaries. "

The chief of notaries considered in the press conference recently, in response to this opinion, that they “do not practice trade, and their profession is not subject to supply and demand, which leads them to reject a formula“ for the notary has the right to fees that do not exceed the tariff attached to this decree. ”He added:“ The government wants Put a roof and let us fight down. "

The National Council of the Notaries Authority in Morocco called on the government to adopt the formula agreed upon with the Ministry of Justice and other government sectors, which is "the binder has the right to fees according to the tariff attached to this decree."

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On Monday, the national currency, the dirham, entered a second new stage in liberalizing its exchange rate, moving from a 2.5 per cent to 5 per cent move range.

The Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Administration and Central Bank Reform announced this decision last Friday, and it came into effect on Monday, noting that this stage is part of a gradual currency reform process.

In January 2018, Morocco had begun to expand the volatility of the dirham exchange rate by raising it to 2.5 per cent, after its range over decades was limited to 0.3 per cent.

The central exchange rate is determined by Bank Al-Maghrib on the basis of a basket of currencies, consisting of the euro and the US dollar, at 60 percent and 40 percent, respectively.

The Ministry of Economy stressed that the new stage of currency reform comes in favorable conditions in terms of hard currency reserves, a controlled level of inflation, the sustainability of public debt, and the solidity of the financial sector.

According to the government, the first stage in which the dirham moved within the range of 2.5 per cent within two years reached the goals set for it, without indicating a clear outcome on the subject.

Idriss El Fina, a university professor at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics in Rabat, said that Morocco has adopted workshops on overhauling the drainage system to make it more flexible from the start in 2018 by progressively implementing the flotation process to avoid all possible slippages.

In an interview with Hespress, Elvina pointed out that "the evaluation of the previous stage shows that there is no effect of this measure, neither on the level of inflation, nor on the balance of the trade balance, nor the balance of the current account, nor the volume of foreign investment, nor the stock of the hard currency."

The economist added: "The first stage allowed the building of the legal base and the development of mechanisms on the basis of which this workshop will be implemented, especially allowing the banking system to put in place all the mechanisms that allow it to deal with this new situation in terms of managing supply and demand of hard currency without slippage as happened when The launch of this workshop. "

The spokesman said that Morocco inaugurated today a new stage in reforming the exchange system for its currency by expanding the field of dirham change, considering that "this measure will also have very limited effects on the above variables."

In the view of Vienna, "Bank Al-Maghrib has been leading a very conservative monetary policy for some time, which appears through the statements of the Governor of Bank Al-Maghrib, and that the exchange reform workshops are proceeding very slowly, which wastes great opportunities for economic growth on Morocco."

The expansion of the Moroccan dirham's movement coincides with a hazy circumstance at the global level, especially in light of the impact of the emerging Corona virus on the economies of the entire world, and Morocco has been affected as well.

And Vienna believes that Morocco is exposed to new dangers because of the new Corona, which has produced a change in international policies at the level of trade exchange with China, the epicenter of the epidemic, and other countries led by the European Union and the United States of America.

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