In a historical speech delivered in Marrakesh, the Moroccan sovereign has announced the launching of the work on regionalization in Morocco, as well as the creation of an ad-hoc committee – the Advisory Committee for Regionalization- (ACR)- which will have six months to hand over its working document to the Head of the State. It is more than a change, it is a real upheaval of the region and of the decentralized management that is announced, the Moroccan sovereign having clearly showed the way to be followed “ It concerns, firstly, the advent of full regions sustainable and stable in time, founded on rational and realistic criteria, relating to a new regionalization system”.
The imitation of the foreign decentralized management systems is not an option retained by Mohammed VI, who wishes to see the emergence of a “Moroccan-Moroccan” model, which is called to become “an avant-gardist regionalization model for developing countries”, the sovereign adding “We would like thus to consolidate the privileged position of our country, as a role model, when it concerns taking daring national positions and to bring creative Moroccan answers to major Moroccan issues.”

Of course, this ambitious program primarily concerns the Southern provinces, as they will benefit in priority from the advanced regionalization. The king thus reminds the preeminence of this issue and reaffirms the importance of the autonomy plan presented by Morocco to the United Nations: “We would like, among other major goals, to place our recovered Southern provinces among the first beneficiaries of the advanced regionalization”.
Pointing out the opposition of the other parties involved in the Saharan issue to change, the sovereign has firmly affirmed that “Morocco, indeed, cannot be opposed to change, while the opponents of our territorial integrity try their best to hinder the UNO process aiming at finding a realistic political and mutually acceptable solution to the artificial conflict created around these provinces, a solution based on Our autonomy Initiative, reserved to the Moroccan Sahara”. The way is hence open, and the 21 experts of the committee will have too much work to achieve as this initiative is huge and calls for many statutory and legal evolutions to be implemented.