Moroccan Plan of Reforms

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The Plan of Moroccan Reforms (Arabic: برنامج الإصلاحات المغربية‎, French: Plan de réformes marocaines) or the Demands of the Moroccan People (وثيقة مطالب الشعب المغربي) was list of administrative, economic, and social reforms in favor the Moroccan people that the , through the , demanded from the authorities of the French protectorate on 1 December 1934.^[1] Allal al-Fassi and other Moroccan nationalist leaders presented this document to the French Résidence General in Rabat, to Sultan Muhammad V in Casablanca, and to the French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval in Paris.

Reforms[]

The document contained the following reforms:^[2]

• Administrative policy: establishment of an administrative system based on what appeared in the Treaty of Fes (1912), abolishment of direct rule, formation of a Moroccan government, and establishment of the freedom of expression
• Economic and financial policy: an end to economic exploitation, equality in taxes between Moroccans and foreigners, creation of agricultural cooperatives, protection of traditional industries from competition, nationalization of railways and energy sources
• Social policy: attention to education, particularly elementary education; attention to health, like modernizing clinics and hospitals; improvement of working conditions for Moroccans, such as limiting the workday to 8 hours

The document was divided into 15 sections:

• Political reforms
• Personal and general liberties
• Moroccan citizenship and civil status
• Equality reforms
• Social reforms
• Islamic affairs
• Public health and social care
• Labor affairs
• Economic and financial reforms
• Real estate system
• Taxes and bills
• Miscellaneous reforms
• Arabic as the official language of the country
• Moroccan flag and official holidays
• Legislation

There was no response from the French authorities to these demands; in 1937, the French authorities imprisoned or exiled a number of nationalist leaders.

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