Speaker of House of Representatives Launches Exhibit on “Parliamentary Memory”

Speaker of House of Representatives Habib El Malki presided on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at the House, the opening ceremony of the exhibition on "Parliamentary Memory," organized in partnership between the House of Representatives and Archives of Morocco under the theme "Moroccan Parliament: Milestones of Memory." The ceremony took place in the presence of Director of Archives of Morocco Jamaa Baida, Minister of State in Charge of Human Rights and Relations with the Parliament Mustapha Ramid, former Speakers of the Parliament, the members of the Bureau of the House of Representatives, the chairpersons of groups and caucus, as well as several representatives.

In a statement on this occasion, the Speaker of the House of Representatives stressed that this exhibition is the outcome of fruitful cooperation between the House of Representatives and Archives of Morocco, under the cooperation and partnership agreement concluded previously by both parties. He also noted that parliamentary memory as a whole, including the memory of the House of Representatives, is "a rich and important element of our contemporary political history and national history; a history of struggle, benevolence, and accumulation. A history that three great Kings enlightened, the liberation hero, the late HM King Mohammed V, the constructing King the late His Majesty King Hassan II may God bless his soul, and His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God protect him."

Mr. El Malki said that the history of the legislative institution had involved several national figures, names, and symbols from diverse political and intellectual backgrounds and families of different generations and senior national leaders who engaged in parliamentary action or contributed to its enrichment and support. "The parliamentary history overlaps and complements Morocco’s constitutional, political, and legal history, our partisan history, and our social, economic and cultural history in terms of the societal stretches of the Parliament, of its legislative, control and diplomatic action, and its positions regarding our major national issues, the primary one being our territorial integrity, and Arab, Islamic, African, Mediterranean, and other humanitarian issues."

The Speaker of the House of Representatives called for uplifting the memory of the House of Representatives to a higher and broader level through the creation of a national museum of parliamentary memory. In this respect, he said, "We hope that the contemporary Morocco and democracy will have a vast space, rich with its historical and symbolic contents, ideas, presentations and suggestions, and that the latter will become one of the major distinguishing marks of our country and our people.”

In the same context, Mr. El Malki invited the former Speakers of the House of Representatives, as well as all former and current representatives, to donate copies of their photo albums, documents, and archives (or parts of them), to "contribute to the compilation of the parliamentary archive.”

The Speaker of the House of Representatives concluded his statement by stressing the importance of preserving the Moroccan parliamentary memory and considering the creation of a Moroccan national museum of the history of the Parliament, the history of legislation, and the history of the constitutional and political accumulation.