With the appointment of Fatima Zahra El Mansouri as Morocco's prime minister, she becomes the first woman to hold the place.
In parliamentary elections last week, El Mansouri's center-right party, known as Authenticity and Modernity ( PAM ), won the majority of the seats, putting him in the position of leader.
With his visit, she becomes the next woman to lead a state in Tunisia after Najla Bouden.
Fouzi Lekjaa, the leader of the nation's sports federation, a well-known member of the same party, was given the title of prime minister by King Mohammed VI.
El Mansouri, 50, has served as a secretary in the previous coalition government and has been president of Marrakech for a number of years.
Although Morocco has a constitutional monarchy, the majority of the king's reign continues to be in authority.
Before being elected prime minister, El Mansouri was asked in a press conference whether the position would need to make adjustments to help her participation in the Muslim religious ceremonies the prince, including Friday and Eid prayers, where both men and women perform in distinct sections.
She did not directly respond to the inquiry, but she praised the king as" the greatest keeper of people" in the nation.
His Majesty is a bearer of intellect, according to the saying... It will be a great honor for me to get given the task of head of government, he said.
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She trained in France and the United States, with a focus on commercial and industrial law, before beginning her legal practice at Rabat's Mohammed V University.
She became the first woman president of Marrakech in 2009 after the establishment of the PAM in 2008.
After the 2021 votes, he was elected again.
Under the direction of former prime minister Aziz Akhannouch, she has served as the Minister of National Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing, and Urban Policy for the past five decades.
She became the leader of the PAM management alliance in February 2024.
El Mansouri, who in Pam's publication in 2021 stated," I'm either a woman of steel nor of iron," has opposed to being depicted as an "iron person. " I'm a completely advocate.
Despite ongoing discussions in Morocco about issues like the restriction of marriage and similar rights of inheritance for men and women, El Mansouri has rarely spoken publicly about women's freedom or gender disparity during his political career.
The prince designates the head of state for the party that wins the most seats in the House of Representatives elections, according to the Moroccan Constitution.
The PAM has been led by a shared command since February 2024 as opposed to a single secretary-general.
El Mansouri stated that the king had the final say in the outcome statement last year, leaving the rest to fall to her.
In the past, the appointment was mostly a formality because the majority of Moroccan parties had a second secretary-general as head of state, which made it clear who would be chosen.
With 97 seats, the PAM does not currently have a majority, so it will need to form a coalition to get the 198 seats needed to win the 395-member Parliament's complete bulk.
Due to its distance from the National Independent Group ( RNI), which was the outgoing government's minority partner, it is unclear with which party it will work.
With the return of Abdelilah Benkirane, the party's leader, the Islamist Justice and Development Party ( PJD), who had lost 13 seats in previous elections, the party regained control of 54 seats.
After the ballot, Benkirane declared that the organization may continue to be in the criticism and that it would reject any ties to the PAM.
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