Asmaa Rhlalou | |
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Mayor of Rabat | |
In office 24 September 2021 – 28 February 2024 | |
Preceded by | Mohamed Sadiki |
Succeeded by | Fatiha El Moudni |
Member of the Moroccan Parliament | |
In office 2016–2021 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | National Rally of Independents |
Alma mater | University of Perpignan |
Asmaa Rhlalou is a Moroccan journalist and politician of the National Rally of Independents (RNI). She has been a member of the Moroccan Parliament and was elected as the mayor of the Moroccan capital Rabat by the municipal council in September 2021. [1]
Rhlalou enrolled in the French University of Perpignan, from which she obtained a doctorate from the faculty of economics in 2006. [2]
Rhlalou has been writing for the L'Opinion since 1997, [3] besides she was a reporter for the Arabic language MBC group for two years. [2]
Since the age of fifteen years, Rhlalou was politically active. [2] She was involved in the Istiqlal party for ten years [3] and in 2015 she was invited to join the RNI [2] for which she was elected into the Moroccan Parliament for the term 2016 to 2021. [4] As a deputy of Morocco she represented Morocco in the Women's Political leader's summit in Reykyavik in 2017 [5] and Tokyo in 2019. [6] Following her parties success in the General elections in September 2021, she was elected as the mayor of Rabat by the municipal council supported by a broad coalition of the RNI, Istiqlal, Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM). [7]
In 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Rhlalou to his Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments, co-chaired by Pilar Cancela Rodríguez and Fatimatou Abdel Malick. [8]