HM the King Delivers Speech to Parliament at Opening of First Session of 5th Legislative Year of 11th Legislature

In addition to the directives given in the Throne Day Address regarding local development, I invite you to focus on the following issues:

- First: Give special attention to the most fragile areas, taking into account their specificities and the nature of their needs, especially in mountainous regions and oases.

Harmonious local development cannot be achieved without effective integration and solidarity between regions and areas. It is necessary, today, to reconsider the development policy for mountainous regions, which account for 30% of the national territory.

We need to come up with an integrated public policy for these regions - one that takes into account their specificities as well as their numerous resources.
- Second: Achieve the optimal use of sustainable development mechanisms regarding our coastline, including the Coastal Law and the National Coastal Plan.

The goal is to strike the required balance between the rapid development of these areas, the need to protect them, and the valuation of their enormous potential, within the framework of a national maritime economy that creates wealth as well as job opportunities.

- Third: Expand the scope of the emerging rural centers program as a suitable mechanism for the management of urban expansion and the mitigation of its adverse effects.

These emerging centers will also serve as an effective link for bringing administrative, social, and economic services closer to citizens in rural areas.

Distinguished Members of Parliament,