Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri named Morocco's first woman prime minister
Morocco’s king named Marrakesh mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri prime minister on Tuesday after her centre-right Authenticity and Modernity Party won the previous week’s parliamentary elections. El Mansouri, who joined the party in 2008, previously became the first woman to serve as Marrakesh’s mayor.
Morocco’s king named Marrakesh mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri the country’s first woman prime minister on Tuesday, according to France 24. The appointment followed the parliamentary elections held the previous week, in which El Mansouri’s centre-right Authenticity and Modernity Party, known as PAM, won.
El Mansouri joined PAM in 2008. Her appointment as prime minister marks another first in her political career: she was also the first woman to serve as mayor of Marrakesh.
She first won the Marrakesh mayoralty in 2009, according to the source. She lost the office six years later and returned to the position in 2021.
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