Moroccan Minister Reveals an Aspect of Mohammed VI’s Submission to Macron

The “place of the French language” in the Moroccan educational system is one of the issues in which France bargained with the Moroccan regime in exchange for engaging in the effort to support the plan for autonomy in Western Sahara.

Paris places the “French language” at the forefront of negotiating files with its former colonies in the Maghreb region, and even precedes sometimes even the economic dimension.

It is evident from the statements of a former Moroccan minister, Khalid Samadi (Secretary of State in charge of higher education and scientific research), that French President Emmanuel Macron succeeded in subjugating the Moroccan King Mohammed VI, and behind him, the Moroccan regime, in a sensitive issue related to the position of the French language at the expense of the Arabic language which is the first constitutionally designated language in the educational and university field in the Alawite Kingdom.

In this context, the former minister criticized his country’s government’s freeze on what he called the “Linguistic Engineering Decree,” which “clearly calls for a review of the French of scientific and technical subjects and the discipline of linguistic engineering as stipulated in the strategic vision and the framework law, even if that is at the expense of millions of Moroccan students who do not have any choice but the French.”

Samadi said in his statements reported on the website of the opposition Justice and Development Party in the Kingdom of Morocco; “The government is determined to blatantly violate the requirements of the framework law without justification,” noting that “Morocco has decided the status of the Arabic language in a way that embodies the independence of its educational decision from all circumstantial changes.”

From the perspective of French politicians and theorists, the French language is considered an existential factor for the continued influence of Paris in its former colonies, especially in the Maghreb region close to it. This trend can be felt through the activity of French cultural centres in these countries, which have direct contact with large specialities of outstanding students and some private schools circumvent the laws of the Ministries of Education and train their teachers in the French curricula out of sight.

The former official in the education sector wondered; “Will the thematic working group report alert the government again to return to reforming the path of law? Or will the power of the lending agencies be stronger, and reform and its laws will go to hell?” He stressed that “the Arabic language is the primary language of instruction and the framing law adopted the principle of multilingualism in teaching scientific and technical subjects in the language or foreign languages in addition to the constitutional languages, thus breaking with monolingualism in teaching.”

The former Moroccan minister’s statement came in the wake of a remarkable shift in French-Moroccan relations after communication between Rabat and Paris was completely cut off due to the involvement of Moroccan intelligence in hacking French President Emmanuel Macron’s phone, via the Zionist “Pegasus” spyware, a fact that increased the credibility of the statements of the former official in charge of the education sector in the Alawite Kingdom.

Previously, the former French ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt, admitted that his country’s president, Macron, approached Algeria for seven years in the hope of developing his country’s relations with it, at the expense of the Alawite regime in Rabat, but he succeeded, in only about six months, in subjugating the kingdom, which turned out to show that among its sensitive files there’s “the status of the French language in the Moroccan educational curriculum.”

It also became clear that the threats of the current government of Aziz Akhannouch, which threatened earlier, amid the crisis with Paris, to replace the French language with the English language in the kingdom of the “Emir of the Faithful”, and used it as a card to pressurize the French president Macron, but it quickly collapsed in the face of temptations and pressure, as soon as Macron decided to choose Rabat after he despaired of subjugating Algeria.