Asmaa Rhlalou is a Moroccan journalist and politician of the

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(RNI). She has been a member of the

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and was elected as the mayor of the Moroccan capital

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...

by the municipal council in September 2021.

Early life and education

She enrolled in the French

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, from which she obtained a doctorate from the faculty of economics in 2006.

Journalistic career

She has been writing for the

L'Opinion ''L'Opinion'' is a daily francophone Moroccan newspaper. History and profile ''L'Opinion'' was established in 1965. The daily is the organ of the Istiqlal Party. It is the sister publication of the Arabic-language newspaper ''Al-Alam'' and i ...

since 1997, besides she was a reporter for the

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MBC group for two years.

Political career

Since the age of fifteen years, she was politically active. She was involved in the

Istiqlal Istiqlal ( ar, اِسْتِقْلال, istiqlāl) means ''independence'' and may refer to: Political parties *Azərbaycan Milli İstiqlal Partiyası or Azerbaijan National Independence Party, political party in Azerbaijan *Harakat Al-Istiqlal or In ...

party for ten years and in 2015 she was invited to join the RNI for which she was elected into the Moroccan Parliament for the term 2016 to 2021. As a deputy of Morocco she represented Morocco in the Women's Political leader's summit in Reykyavik in 2017 and

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in 2019. 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 The Authenticity and Modernity Party ( ar, حزب الأصالة والمعاصرة, translit=ḥizb al-ʾaṣāla wa-l-muʿāṣira; zgh, ⴰⵎⵓⵍⵍⵉ ⵏ ⵜⴰⵥⵖⵓⵕⵜ ⴷ ⵜⴰⵎⵜⵔⴰⵔⵜ, translit=amulli n taẓɣoṛt ...

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References

Living people Women mayors of places in Morocco Moroccan journalists Moroccan women journalists 21st-century journalists 21st-century Moroccan women writers 21st-century Moroccan women politicians 21st-century Moroccan politicians Year of birth missing (living people)