House of Representatives Announces Winners of National Parliamentary Research and Studies Prize and National Parliamentary Press Prize for 2021
Speaker of House of Representatives Habib El Malki chaired on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, at the House, the National Parliamentary Research and Studies Prize, and the National Parliamentary Press Prize 2021 award ceremony. The ceremony took place with the participation of the members of the Board of the House of Representatives, the chairpersons of the parliamentary groups, the members of the juries of the two prizes Mohammed Achergui and Younes Mojahed, university professors, and journalists.
The Speaker of the House delivered an address on this occasion where he noted that the organization of this distinguished scientific ceremony to crown the winners of both prizes is part of implementing the provisions of the Rules of Procedure of the House of Representatives and entrenching the openness policy as a strategic orientation of the House. The ceremony also reflects the openness of the House of Representatives to its social entourage in its various components, including the scientific, academic, and media ones, especially considering the role of knowledge and media in achieving development and progress and their contribution to advancing the political and democratic practice.
Mr. El Malki highlighted that the reason behind launching the two prizes is to value the remarkable scientific and media works and to encourage researchers and journalists, particularly young ones, to put further efforts in following, studying, and analyzing all the aspects related the constitutional and political system in our country and its path towards political and democratic development.
The Speaker of the House added that linking scientific research and journalism to social reality will make the specialized scientific research and studies and journalism productions in parliamentary action a reference that can be relied on by all the components of the House and the other actors and concerned groups.
The ceremony awarded the following winners:
- Youssef Benhiba, Parliamentary Research and Studies Prize–encouragement category- for “Parliamentary opposition in the Moroccan Constitutional Regime: Ninth Legislature: a Comparative Study,” which is part of a Ph.D. thesis in public law,
- Mohammed Nafii (from the weekly paper “Le Reporter”): Parliamentary Press Prize, award of merit,
- Jilali Benhalima (from Al-Ahdath Al-Maghribiya): Parliamentary Press Prize –Print media category- for “Adoption of article 9 of the 2020 Finance Act: Backroom scenes,”
- Anass Laamrani (from 2M): Parliamentary Press Prize –Audiovisual media- for a television report on Social Care Institutions (Show: Al-Barlamane wa Nass).