eceived on Tuesday, September 29, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri left it as head of government. King Mohammed VI appointed the coordinator of the collegial leadership of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) and tasked her with forming the new executive.
Six days after the legislative elections of September 23, in which the PAM came first with 97 of the 395 seats in the House of Representatives, the Kingdom is entrusting its government to a woman for the first time.
A lawyer by training, mayor of Marrakech and housing minister since 2021, she succeeds Aziz Akhannouch, whose minister she had been for five years.
Consultations open this Wednesday with the National Rally of Independents (RNI), then Istiqlal. No party holds the 198 seats of a majority on its own, while the three parties of the outgoing coalition together hold 228.
Istiqlal leaves the decision to its National Council, while the PJD, fourth with 54 seats, has ruled out joining a PAM-led government.
The King will name the ministers on Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri’s proposal, and the new team will then have to win the confidence of the House. The steps of the vote are set out in our dossier on the legislative elections.
Photo: Authenticity and Modernity Party.
Ministère de la Maison royale, du Protocole et de la Chancellerie, via la MAP - SM le Roi nomme Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri Cheffe du gouvernement et la charge de former le nouveau gouvernement
Le360 - Gouvernement El Mansouri: les consultations débutent mercredi avec le RNI et l’Istiqlal
