Marrakech Elects First Female Mayor for Second Term, Boosting City Development Plans

Fatima-Zahra Mansouri ran under the banner of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) and received 79 votes. A new six-year term (2021-2027) that will allow the elected official to carry out the structural projects she was leading in the city before her dismissal in 2015. The president of the PAM national council had already held this position between 2009 and 2015.

Following the results of the municipal elections, her party obtained 40 seats - in the five districts of Menara, Gueliz, Medina, Sidi Youssef Ben Ali and Nakhil - out of 179. Favorite for the position of mayor, Fatima-Zahra Mansouri had negotiated an alliance with the National Rally of Independents (RNI) and the Istiqlal Party (PI). Negotiations that proved fruitful. She becomes president of the municipal council of the ochre city and thus succeeds the former PJD mayor, Akram Belkaid.