In the recent period, the prices of building materials have risen significantly, after a rise in food prices was also recorded, which affects the purchasing power of the Moroccan citizen.
The Consumer Protection Association confirmed that the building materials market witnessed a “rocket rise in all commodities, including glass, whose price rose from 70 dirhams per square meter to 135 dirhams, with an increase of 23% in aluminum and PVC, and 10% in other commodities.”
The Moroccan League for Consumer Rights strongly condemned “these increases at an exceptional time that Morocco knows, due to the conditions imposed with the Corona pandemic and the legislative and local elections.”
Bouazza Al-Kharti, President of the Moroccan University of Consumer Rights, pointed out in this regard that “building materials have increased in price, so craftsmen and consumers are confused about their acquisition.”
Al-Kharti stressed, in a statement to Hespress electronic newspaper, that the glass material witnessed a remarkable rise, after its import from Turkey, Egypt and Algeria was stopped.
The same spokesman added that this substance, for example, defines demand at the global level, “which drives exporting countries to present their internal market and customers,” and added: “Therefore, the next government must intervene, especially the Minister of Trade and Industry Moulay Hafid Elalamy, who we hope will return to his position, especially He had previously emphasized the need to think about the glass industry in Morocco, so that there would be sufficiency in this material.
And the matter is not limited to glass only, adds the president of the Moroccan University for Consumer Protection, in his statement, “but also includes materials such as wood, aluminum and others, which have known an increase of ten percent.”
The same association actor recorded that “some materials that did not know an increase in the global market, especially in the Chinese market, it is strange that their prices have increased in Morocco, given the existence of a government vacuum and the absence of any institution concerned with consumer protection.”
The Moroccan League for Consumer Rights called on the appointed head of government, Aziz Akhannouch, to take into consideration during the preparation of the expected government formation the establishment of a ministry concerned with consumption and consumer protection, in order to prevent such increases in foodstuffs and others.
