Chakib Benmoussa

The 'new development model' promoted by King Mohammed VI and led by the Commission Spéciale sur le Modèle de Développement chaired by Chakib Benmoussa will finally be expected to generate some ideas (AC Vol 61 No 22 Unrest simmers over economy and Covid)...

Efforts to modernise the economy and society launched before the lockdown have stalled: a huge undertaking to produce a new development model led by the Commission Spéciale sur le Modèle de Développement chaired by Chakib Benmoussa is not now expected to deliver its findings to M6 until December six months later than originally planned (AC Vol 60 No 25 Activist King vs the activists)...

In the latest attempt to create a framework for Morocco to create accelerated and sustained growth while tackling social cleavages and service delivery shortfalls he is moving a respected former Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa from the Paris embassy to chair a much-anticipated special commission to find a 'new model of development' – by next June (AC Vol 60 No 2 Anger and innovation)...

Overcoming this is the key role of King Mohammed VI (M6)'s latest new body to re-engineer the economy and society the Commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement chaired by Chakib Benmoussa (see main article)...

They include Secretary of State for the Interior Fouad Ali el Hima (who is much more powerful than the actual Minister Chakib Benmoussa) Political Secretary Mohammed Rochdi Chraïbi and Royal Advisor Mohammed Moatassim...

Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa calls Al Adl wal Ihsane ‘subversive' whereas he has been talking to the ‘legally constituted and recognised' PJD ahead of the elections...