Fatima-Zahra Mansouri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Fatima-Zahra Mansouri

Moroccan politician

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1976

Place of Birth: Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco

Profession: lawyer, politician, jurist

Nationality: Morocco

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Fatima Zahra Mansouri (born January 3, 1976) is a Moroccan lawyer and politician of the Authenticity and Modernity party, and previously mayor of Marrakesh.On 23 June 2009, backed by the Moroccan palace, which pressured political parties to counter the PJD through alliances, she was chosen by the city council elected members in a controversial election, as mayor of Marrakesh.
Contrary to some media reports she was not the first women to attain this position, but rose to this office among a dozen other women who were co-opted by Morocco's government, through quotas, funding and pressuring of city council membersMansouri is a relative of Mohammed VI's friend, influential advisor and founder of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, Fouad Ali El Himma.Amidst the pressure of the Arab spring, Mansouri resigned the mayorship on 7 July 2011, but later retracted that decision