فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
The Minister Delegate for the Budget, Fouzi Lekjaa, reassured Moroccan citizens on Monday, January 14, 2025, during a session in the House of Representatives, that the government is not currently considering an increase in butane gas prices. This statement came in response to an oral question regarding the impact of rising gas prices in Morocco, posed by the Socialist team in the opposition during the question-and-answer session.
Lekjaa explained that the government allocates over 15 billion dirhams annually to support butane gas consumption, aimed at assisting the poor who are most in need of this support. He noted that the most vulnerable groups, representing 20% of the poorest segment of society, only receive 14% of this support, while the wealthiest 20% benefit from 27%, effectively receiving double what the poorest groups obtain.
In this context, the minister emphasized that the real issue lies in not directing support to those who truly deserve it, highlighting that both the government and parliament must find effective ways to ensure that this support reaches the impoverished populations for whom it was intended.
He stressed that the challenge today is not about reducing or increasing support but rather about establishing mechanisms to ensure that only poor classes benefit from this assistance. Lekjaa pointed out that direct support mechanisms through financial transfers to vulnerable groups are the most appropriate, as these groups deserve such support and should benefit from any financial margins that can be generated through prudent management.
