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VEND 11, SAM. 12 ET DIM. 13 AOÛT 2023 - N°6576 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID
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Morocco at Cash takes off again
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Editorial Hypocrites Meriem OUDGHIRI

“H IDE this condominium manager whom I should not see!”. This fa- of the condominium withers and the anarchy continues. However, there is no
mous line, somewhat distorted and borrowed from the «Tartuffe» community life without rules. Paying one’s contribution to the property manager
theatrical comedy of French playwright, actor, and poet Molière, is part of the rules. Failure to do so is like refusing to pay one’s taxes. Today,
translates well the plague that rages in the field of joint ownership in Morocco, faced with the rise of this concept of living together, especially in large cities,
a plague in the form in particular of the huge mass of unpaid property manage- it is urgent to review the entire system. After a wait of 21 years, the accounting
ment dues by the joint owners. Anyone, provided he shouts loud enough, can rules dedicated to co-ownership management associations have just been intro-
block any decision by simply refusing to pay his charges on the pretext that he duced into the adoption circuit, but there are still other major issues waiting to be
lives on the first floor of a building and does not use the elevator. By snowball worked on, namely (re)amending various provisions of the law, and regulating
effect, the other joint owners do the same. And it is precisely this fee that is used the status and profession of condominium managers. Another big obstacle to
to pay the janitor, the water and electricity bills, the elevator maintenance, and remove is ignorance of the law itself and the lack of awareness. Who says rules
other charges. In the end, most managing agents end up giving up so as not to of cohabitation, says rights and obligations of each stakeholder to be respected.
beg their neighbors for the contribution to be paid and not rack their brains in This is what this famous democracy that we are crying out for is all about, and
court. Despite the laws and amendments, the situation in the «common areas» it is on the landing of our apartments that democracy must already begin.o