2026: A Pivotal Year for Socioeconomic Development
2026 will undoubtedly be a benchmark year, if not a turning point. By the end of it, we will have a clear idea of the progress made in the various socioeconomic recovery programs and the reliability of the approaches and implementation tools put in place. The stakes are high, and there is no room for complacency or laxity. It's time for commitment and concrete action.
This decisive and historic turning point, as described by the Head of Government at the start of the budget marathon, includes the mobilization of all stakeholders to achieve the already set objectives. Moreover, it's a national battle, as the President of the Republic often reminds us, which rejects indifference and idleness and advocates for dedication and accountability.
This requires, obviously, a participatory approach that seeks to guide, even progressively, national strategic choices based on a prospective vision. The fact that the budget program for the next fiscal year is based on the 2026-2030 development project gives more substance to this new strategic orientation. This testifies to a prospective vision that relies on planning and anticipation rather than improvisation.
Therefore, the planned orientations should logically aim to lay the foundations for a just, integrated, human, and sustainable socioeconomic development. An ambitious goal that relies on a set of indispensable provisions, including:
- Promoting investment, which is still far from its usual pace
- Ensuring sustained and balanced regional development through the expansion of financial and administrative decentralization
- Promoting employment, a priority concern
- Improving the competitiveness of our production apparatus, thanks to a better restructuring of our strategic sectors
It also involves improving the business environment through:
- Maintaining administrative purge operations, fighting corruption and speculation
- Consolidating basic infrastructure, particularly industrial
- Accelerating various energy transition, digitalization, and economy greening programs
All this with the aim of achieving global, restructured, and above all resilient growth, capable of adapting to shocks, recovering from crises, and maintaining a positive trajectory for a long time.
These important projections require, however, specific performance tools. And it's certainly in our human capital that we must first draw, as these challenges require competence and qualification. Therefore, deepening the reform of the educational system, improving its technological level, and modernizing vocational training and adapting it to new trends are, so to speak, indispensable.
