(ANSAmed) – RABAT, MAY 17 – As expected, Miriem Bensalah Chaqroun has been elected as the new president of the General Confederation of Moroccan Businesses (CGEM). With 96.8% of the vote, Bensalah becomes the first women to head a confederation of industrialists in an Arab country. Her term will last for three years and she will be able to stand for re-election only once.
Bensalah immediately stressed that she would make the CGEM “a dynamic an inclusive organisation, a real player in the conception and implementation of economic development policies in the country”. She also promised that she wanted to “involve the CGEM in the drafting, management and carrying out of sector programmes such as the national pact for industrial emergency (PNEI), which is aimed at strengthening industry that we have sadly neglected for too long”. Bensalah also underlined the need for the organisation to be an active element in economic regionalisation, the strengthening of competition, better fiscality and the training of human capital.
The newly elected president, who placed small and medium-sized businesses and the role of entrepreneurs at the centre of her election campaign, said that the CGEM would need to pay greater attention to these themes and help their compatibility with major companies. The issues are linked to the promotion of private investment, particularly that aimed at young people. Bensalah said that social dialogue would be “renewed, direct, frank and regulated for the good and commitment of all,” adding that as far as trade unions are concerned, “there will be some compromises but never capitulations”. (ANSAmed).
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