Morocco appoints Fatima Zahra El Mansouri as first woman prime minister

King Mohammed VI named Fatima Zahra El Mansouri prime minister on Sept. 29 after her Authenticity and Modernity Party won Sept. 23 parliamentary elections. She is Morocco's first woman premier and only the second woman to lead an Arab government, after Tunisia's Najla Bouden. PAM won 97 of 395 seats and must now negotiate a coalition.