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First female prime minister named in Morocco after winning elections
Her appointment by the king makes her only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world.
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A lawyer by training, 50-year-old Fatima Zahra El Mansouri has been the mayor of Marrakesh for a number of years
Fatima Zahra El Mansouri has been named Morocco's first female prime minister, after her centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party (Pam) won the most seats in last week's parliamentary elections.
Her appointment makes her only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world, after Tunisia's Najla Bouden.
El Mansouri has rejected her portrayal as an "iron woman", telling Pam's magazine in 2021: "I am neither a woman of steel nor iron... I am a free activist."