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Programmes followed through, with dated and sourced figures: what Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri has led at the Ministry of Housing, at Marrakech City Hall and at the head of her party.
Minister of National Territory Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and City Policy from 7 October 2021 to 2026: a portfolio that touches Moroccans’ daily lives, from housing to territorial balance.
Presented to the King on 17 October 2023 and launched on 2 January 2024 on a fully digital platform, “Daam Sakane” pays buyers directly: 100,000 dirhams for a home up to 300,000 dirhams, and 70,000 dirhams up to 700,000 dirhams.
The pace of rehousing has tripled since 2021, backed by new tools: drone monitoring linked to a geographic information system, and a national register of beneficiaries.
After the earthquake of 8 September 2023, technical committees issued reconstruction permits to seismic standards that respect local architecture. The Al Omrane group mobilised 240 architects, 62 engineers, 130 design offices, 23 laboratories and more than 70 firms.
Launched on 16 September 2022, the National Dialogue on Urbanism and Housing brought together more than 4,000 participants across the 12 regions. It fed the ministry’s reorganisation and two laws adopted unanimously at second reading on 7 July 2026: Law 64.23, creating twelve regional urban planning and housing agencies, and Law 34.21 on subdivisions.
The joint circular of 28 April 2023 simplified rural building permits and extended free architectural assistance. The minimum plot for building a rural home was cut from 10,000 to 2,500 m², and an emerging rural centres programme is structuring tomorrow’s small towns.
Protecting families and heritage: the national urban renewal agency began identifying and classifying buildings at risk of collapse in every region, while old medinas gained rehabilitation plans and architectural charters.
On 28 April 2022 in New York, she led Morocco’s delegation at the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on the New Urban Agenda. She spoke at the Africities summit in Kisumu (May 2022), and Morocco’s address at the UN-Habitat Assembly in Nairobi (June 2023) was delivered in her name.
The city’s first woman mayor in 2009, re-elected in 2021: modernising Marrakech while preserving its urban and heritage identity.
“We have modernised Marrakech without renouncing its soul”
Re-elected on 17 September 2021, she has led a programme of 423 projects and 15.16 billion dirhams of planned investment, backed by 67 partnership agreements worth 8.63 billion dirhams. Mobility, roads, green spaces, heritage and digital services are the priorities.
Elected on 22 June 2009, at 33, as the first woman mayor of Marrakech. Her council prepared, through a participatory process, the programme “Marrakech, City of Permanent Renewal”, launched by the King on 6 January 2014.
A founding member of the PAM in 2008, President of its National Council from 2016 to 2024, then coordinator of its collegial leadership.
President of the National Council (elected unanimously in 2016, re-elected unanimously in 2020), then coordinator of the collegial leadership since February 2024, she has overseen the party’s modernisation: an ethics charter, a political academy, a summer university, the Jeel 2030 youth platform and renewed candidate lists.
With 87 seats in the 2021 elections, the PAM joined the governing majority and received seven portfolios in the government appointed on 7 October 2021, including Justice; National Territory Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and City Policy; and Youth, Culture and Communication.