First female prime minister named in Morocco after winning elections
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.
She was named by King Mohammed VI, who chose her as prime minister over the country's football chief Fouzi Lekjaa, a top politician from the same party. El Mansouri, 50, has been the mayor of Marrakesh for a number of years and also served as a minister in the previous coalition government.
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