Moroccans rally over government plans for employment in education sector
Thousands of teachers and their families in Morocco have taken to the streets in the capital, Rabat, to voice their anger at government employment plans in the education sector.
Despite an official ban on demonstrations, several thousand trainee teachers staged a protest on Sunday in the Moroccan capital.
Around 10,000 young Moroccans passed an examination to begin training to be teachers in public schools. On October 8, however, the government said they had to take and pass another exam at the end of the year in order to be hired. Only 7,000 would pass the final tests, according to government data.
The latest rally came in the wake of several other protests held in the last few months against government plans to cut spending and reduce public sector hiring as part of reforms aimed at reviving state finances.
On Thursday, the Moroccan government set a ban on all unauthorized protests; however, organizers, defying the decree, said they had the right to protest under the constitution.
“I have three children, and I thought we had finally found a job for one, but it doesn’t seem so,” said Hassan Dehih, coming from the city of Kenitra, in northern Morocco, to support his daughter. “At least if they beat her, I will be beaten too.”
With dozens injured during previous demonstrations, Moroccan police are accused of employing excessive force, prompting Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane’s government to order an inquiry into the matter.
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