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RABAT, Morocco (AP) – Moroccan King Mohammed VI on Thursday appointed a new government made up of a coalition of liberal and conservative parties and led by a billionaire businessman.
The cabinet of Prime Minister Aziz Akhanouch of the Rally of National Independents party is made up of 24 ministers, including seven women.
Seven ministers retained their posts, including the important ministers of foreign affairs and the interior. Nadia Fettah Alaoui, who was Minister of Tourism in the previous government, will be Morocco’s first woman Minister of Finance.
Akhanouch, one of Morocco’s richest men, was appointed prime minister last month after his party came first in the parliamentary elections, winning 102 of the 395 seats in the lower house of parliament. He replaced Saad Eddine El Othmani, whose Islamist Justice and Development Party suffered a crushing defeat in the September 8 elections.
The PJD, which has led the government since 2011, only won 13 seats in parliament. The PJD leadership resigned en masse after the elections and said the party would join the opposition ranks.
The new coalition includes the RNI, the Authenticity and Modernity party and the conservative Istiqlal.
Ultimate power in Morocco rests with the king.
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