Morocco’s king appoints El Mansouri as first woman prime minister

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King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri to become Morocco’s first woman prime minister after her party won the September 23 parliamentary election. He asked her to form a new government, following the victory of the liberal-centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party.

King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri on Tuesday as Morocco’s first woman prime minister after her liberal-centrist party came out on top in a September 23 parliamentary election, the royal palace said. The king asked El Mansouri to form a new government, the palace said in a ‌statement. El Mansouri’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) was created in 2008 by an adviser to the king and has since positioned itself as a counterweight to the Islamist Justice and Development Party...