Morocco’s draft Finance Law for 2027 provides for 34,454 budget posts within the general state budget. The figure appears in Article 21 of the package published by the Ministry of Economy and Finance on October 23, 2026. It describes proposed staffing authorizations for the coming budget year, rather than completed recruitment, individual assignments or evidence that the people concerned have already entered service and been placed on the public payroll.
The legislation is identified as draft law no. 60.26. According to the parliamentary record, it was deposited with the House of Representatives on October 20, 2026, and referred to the Finance and Economic Development Committee on October 23. As of October 26, the allocations therefore remained provisions in a bill undergoing parliamentary examination, rather than amounts contained in an enacted Finance Law, and could still change before final adoption.
What the 34,454-post total contains
The headline total requires a careful breakdown. Of the 34,454 posts provided in the general state budget, 33,954 are distributed directly among ministries and public institutions named in the allocation table. The remaining 500 are not an additional package placed above the headline number. They are already included within it and are reserved for central allocation by the head of government under the mechanism established by the draft legislation.
Of those 500 centrally allocated posts, 200 are reserved for persons with disabilities. The 500 should not be added either to the 33,954 directly distributed posts or to the overall figure of 34,454, because they account for the exact difference between those totals. Keeping that distinction clear also establishes the correct denominator for calculating the share assigned to the three administrations grouped editorially in this article as security-related sectors.
A combined 21,200 posts for three administrations
The Interior Ministry receives 14,200 posts, the largest named allocation in the Article 21 table. The National Defence Administration is assigned 5,500, while the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration receives 1,500. Together, the three lines amount to 21,200 proposed budget posts under the 2027 draft Finance Law. This combined figure is an arithmetic grouping of separately listed institutional allocations rather than a distinct additional envelope created by the bill.
The 21,200 posts equal approximately 62.4% of the 33,954 posts distributed directly among named administrations. That percentage does not use the full 34,454 total as its denominator, because the larger figure also contains the 500 posts awaiting central allocation. It is likewise an analytical grouping of Interior, Defence and prison administration. The draft’s Article 21 table does not itself establish a single legal category called “security sectors” covering those three institutions.
Health also receives a major allocation
Outside that three-institution grouping, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection receives 5,400 posts in the main distribution. Its allocation is close in size to the 5,500 assigned to the National Defence Administration, but far below the Interior Ministry’s 14,200. These comparisons concern only the budget authorizations proposed in the draft. They do not establish that an equivalent number of people have already been recruited, assigned to positions or entered into service.
The Ministry of National Education, meanwhile, is listed with 364 posts in the main table. That number must be separated from another education measure creating 600 additional posts. Without this distinction, the main Article 21 distribution could be confused with a targeted regularization mechanism. The verified figures specify that the separate 600 posts are additional to, rather than included within, the general state budget total of 34,454 posts.
A separate 600-post education measure
The separate measure creates 600 posts from January 1, 2027, to regularize certain National Education civil servants who hold doctorates or qualifications recognized as equivalent. These posts are not included in the 34,454 general-budget authorizations. They should therefore be distinguished both from the 364 posts allocated to the ministry in the main distribution table and from the 500 posts included in the general total but retained for allocation by the head of government.
The figures consequently need to be read as three distinct sets: 33,954 posts distributed directly, 500 posts included in the headline total but reserved for a central decision, and 600 additional posts connected to the targeted National Education regularization mechanism. This approach avoids counting the central allocation twice or incorrectly folding the separate education measure into the 34,454 posts proposed within the general state budget under Article 21.
A lower total than in the previous draft budget
The 2027 draft provides 34,454 general-budget posts, compared with the 36,895 posts reported for the 2026 draft budget. The comparison therefore shows a lower overall volume in the newer proposal, even as its distribution gives a prominent place to Interior, National Defence and prison administration. It remains a comparison between two draft-budget totals and does not change the character of the figures as proposed legal authorizations rather than evidence of completed hiring.
The next material stage is parliamentary consideration, including any amendments in committee or plenary proceedings, followed by final adoption of the 2027 Finance Law. Until that process is completed, the figures of 14,200 posts for Interior, 5,500 for Defence, 1,500 for prison administration and 5,400 for Health should be described as allocations in the deposited draft, not as final provisions that have already been enacted into law.
