摩洛哥任命其足球联合会主席为财政部长，随着2030年国际足联世界杯共同主办国面临财政空间收窄和社会支出需求增加的挑战。
Morocco appointed the head of its football federation as finance minister, as the 2030 FIFA World Cup co-host faces the challenge of narrowing fiscal leeway and pressing demand for social spending.
前预算部长弗齐·莱克贾被任命为法蒂玛·埃扎赫拉·曼苏里总理政府中的经济、财政和公共效率事务部长，该政府由穆罕默德六世国王于周五任命。
Fouzi Lekjaa, the ex-budget minister, was appointed to head the economy, finance and public efficiency portfolio in Prime Minister Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri’s government that King Mohammed VI appointed on Friday.
公共效率职能是财政和经济部的新设职能，可能反映出摩洛哥提高盈利能力和精简臃肿公共部门的努力。
The public efficiency role, a novel function for the finance and economy ministry, may reflect Morocco’s effort to improve the profitability and streamline its bloated public sector.
新政府的任期与摩洛哥与西班牙和葡萄牙共同举办2030年男子国际足联世界杯同时进行。上个月的议会选举是自2025年Z世代抗议席卷摩洛哥主要城市并凸显人们长期对经济不平等和公共服务破败的不满以来的首次选举。
The new government’s mandate coincides with Morocco’s co-hosting of the men’s FIFA World Cup with Spain and Portugal in 2030. Last month’s parliamentary election was the first since Gen Z protests in 2025 swept Morocco’s major cities and spotlit long-held grievances over economic equality and dilapidated public services.
莱克贾是前农学工程师和税务检查员，他在选举前几个月加入了曼苏里的真实与现代党。
Lekjaa, a former agronomy engineer and tax inspector, joined El Mansouri’s Authenticity and Modernity Party a few months before the election.
56岁的莱克贾承诺，到2031年每年增加700亿迪拉姆（约72亿美元）的支出，并承诺创造就业、提高工资和养老金，降低生活成本。
Lekjaa, 56, vowed to increase spending by an annual 70 billion dirhams ($7.2 billion) through 2031 and pledged to create jobs, raise wages and pensions, and bring down living costs.
这是一项艰巨的任务，因为摩洛哥将不得不放弃所谓的创新融资机制——主要是将国有资产出售给地方基金以换取租金支付——而它自2019年以来一直依赖这一机制来减少对债务的依赖。
It’s a tall order since Morocco, will have to do without the so-called innovative financing mechanisms — mostly the sale of state property to local funds in exchange for the payment of rent — which it has been relying on since 2019 to reduce recourse to debt.
这些机制在2025年筹集了约42亿美元。2027年预算法案预计将于下周公布。
Those mechanisms raised about $4.2 billion in 2025. The 2027 budget bill is expected to be unveiled next week.
摩洛哥是净化石油进口国，一直感受到中东战争带来的日益加剧的压力。自伊朗战争于二月爆发以来，其央行已将今年经常账户赤字的预测提高了一倍多。
Morocco, a net fossil fuel importer, has been feeling the increasing pains of the wars in the Middle East. Its central bank has more than doubled its projection for its current account deficit this year since the war in Iran broke out in February.
国际货币基金组织本周敦促摩洛哥提升韧性，确保“财政政策保持一致并适当巩固”，以应对高能源价格及其他外部压力带来的风险。
The International Monetary Fund urged Morocco this week to boost its resilience and ensure “fiscal policies are in line and appropriately consolidated” to manage its exposure to high energy prices and other external pressures.
摩洛哥规划与统计署（HCP）本周表示，约76%的家庭称其生活水平在截至9月的12个月内有所恶化，且超过一半的家庭预计到2027年第三季度末生活水平将进一步恶化。
HCP, Morocco’s planning and statistics agency, this week said about 76% of households said their living standards deteriorated over the 12 months through September and more than half expect them to worsen further by the end of the third quarter of 2027.