Английская Википедия:Asmaa Rhlalou

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder 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]

Early life and education

Rhlalou enrolled in the French University of Perpignan, from which she obtained a doctorate from the faculty of economics in 2006.[2]

Journalistic career

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]

Political career

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]

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