Midelt – HM King Mohammed VI received, on Tuesday in Midelt (central Morocco), Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), and appointed him Head of Government (Prime Minister), the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery announced in a statement.
With 107 seats in the 395-seat House of Representatives, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) won a landslide victory in the parliamentary election, held Friday in Morocco.
The new Head of Government was born in 1954 in Rabat. In 1979, he obtained a master’s degree in physical sciences. He then teached in the training school of teachers in Rabat.
He was elected secretary-general of the PJD in 2008.
The new Head of Government, who joined the Shabiba Islamiya in 1976, was president of the “Reform and Renewal” movement and of the PJD’s national council.
Benkirane, who was also managing director of the newspapers “Al-Islah”, “Al-Raya” and “Attajdid”, is father of six.
