Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri Named First Female Prime Minister of Morocco
She must form a coalition after her party won 97 of 395 seats and fell short of a majority, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Moroccan King Muhammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's first female prime minister, announcing the decision via state-run news outlet Maghreb Arab Presse.
- El Mansouri's centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party won 97 of 395 parliamentary seats in last week's election, securing the most votes but falling short of a majority government.
- Before this appointment, El Mansouri served as Morocco's housing and urban policy minister and was the first woman to serve as mayor of Marrakesh.
- Prime Minister El Mansouri must now form a coalition government to secure a legislative majority, replacing speculation that budget minister Fouzi Lekjaa might lead 2030 World Cup planning.
- Her appointment marks the third time a woman has led an Arab government, following Tunisia's Najla Bouden and Sarra Zaarfrani Zensri. El Mansouri called it "a message to all women in the kingdom.
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Morocco Becomes 2nd Arab Country to Appoint Female Head of Government
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Morocco’s new head of government and coordinator of the Authenticity and Modernity Party’s collegial leadership, speaks at PAM’s post-election press conference in Rabat on Sept. 24, 2026. (Etienne Fauchaire/The Epoch Times)
First female prime minister appointed
CASABLANCA (AP): Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Tuesday named Urban Planning Minister Fatima Zahra Mansouri as the country’s prime minister, making the 50-year-old attorney the first woman to hold the position in the Muslim kingdom. Mansouri, who until her nomination was also the mayor of Marrakech, was tasked with forming a new government, the Royal Palace said in a statement. The announcement came four days after results of parliamentary electi…
What Fatima El-Mansouri’s historic rise means for Morocco
LONDON: In May 1993, the French journalist Anne Sinclair sat opposite King Hassan II on the television program “7 sur 7” and asked whether Morocco would one day have a female prime minister. The King answered with characteristic pragmatism. Nothing in the constitution or in Islamic jurisprudence stood in the way of it, he said, adding that “nothing can prevent a woman from being a prime minister in Morocco.” More than three decades later, the la…
The first woman in charge of the Moroccan Government faces the challenge of forming a coalition and returning hope to a country dominated by corruption by big business and small officials
King Mohammed VI of Morocco made an extremely unexpected political move – for the first time in history, he appointed a woman as the Prime Minister of his country. How does Fatima Zahra al-Mansuri know how a woman can rule in a traditional Islamic society – and why did the Moroccan king make such a choice? Her name is Fatima Zahra al-Mansuri, who is now 50 years old and now the first woman Prime Minister in the history of the Kingdom of Morocco.…
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