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Fatima Zahra Mansouri is tasked with forming a new government after her party won the most votes in parliamentary elections.
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King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Zahra Mansouri as Morocco’s first woman prime minister and tasked her with forming a government.
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- Sep 29, 2026, 07:14 PM
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named Fatima Zahra Mansouri as the country’s prime minister, making her the first woman to hold the position in the Muslim kingdom. The royal palace said Mansouri, who was urban planning minister and mayor of Marrakech, had been tasked with forming a new government.
