Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri becomes Morocco's first female prime minister
King Mohammed VI swears in a 32-member coalition government led by the country's first woman prime minister.
KEY POINTS
- Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri is Morocco's first female prime minister
- The 32-member cabinet was sworn in at the Royal Palace in Rabat on October 16
- A four-party coalition holds 207 of 395 parliamentary seats
- Fouzi Lekjaa becomes economy and finance minister; artificial intelligence becomes its own ministry
- RNI, the previous ruling party with 66 seats, is excluded from the new government
King Mohammed VI swore in Morocco's first female prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, at the Royal Palace in Rabat on Friday, October 16. The new government has 32 members and includes 11 deputy ministers, four of whom are women.
El Mansouri leads a four-party coalition comprising PAM, Istiqlal, USFP and PPS. Together the parties hold 207 of the 395 seats in the House of Representatives, surpassing the 198 needed for a parliamentary majority.
“Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri has become the first woman to head a Moroccan government.”
The cabinet keeps traditional palace-appointed officials in key sovereign ministries. Abdeluafi Laftit remains interior minister and Naser Burita retains foreign affairs, a post he has held since 2017. Abdelatif Ouahbi continues as justice minister.
Fouzi Lekjaa, president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, is promoted to economy and finance minister. Nabil Benabdallah takes charge of education from preschool through vocational training, while artificial intelligence becomes a standalone ministry.
El Mansouri, a 50-year-old lawyer, previously served as mayor of Marrakech and as minister of national territorial planning, urban planning, housing and urban policy. PAM won the September 23 legislative elections with 97 seats, ahead of RNI's 66, which left the ruling party out of the new coalition.
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