Morocco appoints first female prime minister

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri arsenic the country’s archetypal pistillate premier curate and directed her to signifier a caller government.

The assignment came aft the September 23 parliamentary election, successful which El Mansouri’s Authenticity and Modernity Party, PAM, won the highest fig of seats successful the 395-member House of Representatives.

The Royal Palace announced the assignment connected Tuesday, saying the King received El Mansouri astatine the Royal Palace successful Rabat earlier naming her caput of authorities successful enactment with the country’s constitution.

PAM secured 97 seats successful the election, followed by the National Rally of Independents with 66 seats and the Istiqlal Party with 65. The result means El Mansouri volition person to negociate with different parties to assemble a conjugation government.

Morocco operates a law monarchy nether which the King retains important powers. The constitution provides that the monarch appoints the caput of authorities from the governmental enactment that obtains the largest fig of seats successful the House of Representatives.

El Mansouri, 50, is simply a lawyer who antecedently served arsenic politician of Marrakech. She besides held the presumption of curate liable for nationalist territory p...