After dismissing several senior officials in October, King Mohammed VI appointed on Monday, 22nd of January, their successors, reports MAP news agency. To replace the sacked ministers, the sovereign named Mouhcine Jazouli, CEO of Valyans Consulting firm, minister delegate in charge of African affairs, Saaid Amzazi, current president of Mohamed V university, minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Abdelahad Fassi-Fehri, member of the PPS political bureau, minister of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development. Meanwhile, Anas Doukkali, current head of the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Competencies (ANAPEC), was appointed as minister of Health while Mohamed El-Gherrass, secretary general of the Ministry of Youth, Secretary of State for the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research. After receiving a report following an investigation led by the President of the Court of Accounts on the reasons behind the slow pace of development projects, which fall within the framework of the «Lighthouse of the Mediterranean» initiative signed before the King on October 2015, the Sovereign decided to apply Article 47 of the Constitution, dismissing four ministers from El Othmani's cabinet. The list of officials laid off by the King includes : Mohamed Hassad, former Interior Minister in the government of Abdelilah Benkirane and currently head of the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training, El Houcine Louardi, Minister of Health, Nabil Benabdellah, Minister of Housing and Larbi Bencheikh, Secretary of State for Vocational Training. At the time «Al Hoceima Lighthouse of the Mediterranean» was signed, the latter held the position of the Director of Morocco's Office of Vocational Training. Ali Fassi-Fihri, CEO of the National Office for Electricity and Potable Water (ONEE) and brother of the King's personal adviser Taieb Fassi-Fihri, was also part of the list.
