The Mansouri Government… Technocrat Rule… The Return of the King’s Minions… Ministers Who Flopped in the Elections!

The Mansouri Government: Technocrats Take Control of Key Sectors; The King’s Favorites Return; Ministers Ousted in the Elections!

King Mohammed VI received members of the new government at the Royal Palace in Rabat. The government is headed by Fatima Al-Zahra Al-Mansouri, coordinator of the collective leadership of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), who is the first woman to hold this position in Morocco’s modern history. The cabinet comprises 32 members drawn from a coalition of four major parties—the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the Independence Party (Istiqlal), the Socialist Union Party (USFP), and the Progress and Socialism Party (PPS)—while maintaining stability in key ministries such as the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Religious Endowments, and Defense, and retaining a number of former ministers in strategic sectors, alongside notable structural changes—including the Ministry of Agriculture leaving the Free Party for the first time and the creation of a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.

This government highlights a range of political and symbolic achievements, foremost among them the political empowerment of women and the reliance on a comfortable parliamentary majority of 210 seats, but it also faces criticism regarding the excessive number of ministerial portfolios and the limited gender parity—with only 6 women compared to 25 men. Furthermore, the return of certain political figures and the dominance of technocrats in key ministries raise questions about this cabinet’s ability to achieve the necessary balance and fulfill economic and social commitments in the coming period.