Fatima Zahra Mansouri (born January 3, 1976) is a Moroccan lawyer and politician of the Authenticity and Modernity party, and previously mayor of Marrakesh. On 23 June 2009, backed by the Moroccan palace, which pressured political parties to counter the PJD through alliances, she was chosen by the city council elected members in a controversial election, as mayor of Marrakesh. Contrary to some media reports she was not the first women to attain this position, but rose to this office among a dozen other women who were co-opted by Morocco's government, through quotas, funding and pressuring of city council members