Editing Marrakesh (section)

==Politics==
[[File:MoroccoMarrakech cityHall.jpg|thumb|right|Marrakesh City Hall]]
Marrakesh, the regional capital, constitutes a prefecture-level administrative unit of Morocco, Marrakech Prefecture, forming part of the region of [[Marrakech-Safi]]. Marrakesh is a major centre for law and jurisdiction in Morocco and most of the major courts of the region are here. These include the regional Court of Appeal, the Commercial Court, the Administrative Court, the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal of Commerce, and the Administrative Court of Appeal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.justice.gov.ma/fr/OrganisationJudiciaire/Listes.aspx?region=52&_=1|title=L'Organisation Judicaire|publisher=Le Ministère de la Justice|language=fr|access-date=20 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525050442/http://www.justice.gov.ma/fr/OrganisationJudiciaire/Listes.aspx?region=52&_=1|archive-date=25 May 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Numerous organizations of the region are based here, including the regional government administrative offices, the Regional Council of Tourism office, and regional public maintenance organisations such as the Governed Autonomous Water Supply and Electricity and [[Maroc Telecom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccismar.ma/ccism.asp?codelangue=23&info=59|title=Adresses Utiles|publisher=Chambre de Commerce, D'Industrie et des Services de Marrakech|access-date=20 October 2012|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001013625/http://www.ccismar.ma/ccism.asp?codelangue=23&info=59|archive-date=1 October 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

On 12 June 2009, [[Fatima-Zahra Mansouri]], a then 33-year-old lawyer and daughter of a former assistant to the local authority chief in Marrakesh, was elected the first female mayor of the city, defeating outgoing Mayor [[Omar Jazouli]] by 54 votes to 35 in a municipal council vote.<ref name="AA0609">{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-202221996.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525140019/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-202221996.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 May 2013|title=Morocco's Marrakech elects first woman mayor|publisher=[[Al Arabiya]] (Saudi Arabia) |date=21 June 2009|access-date=18 October 2012}}</ref><ref name="africansuccess.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?lang=en&id=853|title=Biography of Fatima Zahra MANSOURI|publisher=African Success|access-date=27 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613051005/http://africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=853&lang=en|archive-date=13 June 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mansouri became the second woman in the history of Morocco to obtain a mayoral position, after [[Asma Chaabi]], mayor of [[Essaouira]]<ref name="AA0609"/> and was elected to serve as Marrakech's mayor for a second term in September 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Women elected mayors of Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakesh {{!}}|url=http://thearabweekly.com/women-elected-mayors-rabat-casablanca-marrakesh|access-date=2021-09-27|website=AW|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925184253/https://thearabweekly.com/women-elected-mayors-rabat-casablanca-marrakesh|url-status=live}}</ref>

Since the legislative elections in November 2011, the ruling political party in Marrakesh has, for the first time, been the [[Justice and Development Party (Morocco)|Justice and Development Party]] or PDJ which also rules at the national level. The party, which advocates [[Islamism]] and [[Islamic democracy]], won five seats; the [[National Rally of Independents]] (RNI) took one seat, while the PAM won three.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.leconomiste.com/article/889030-legislatives-2011brmarrakech-grosse-defaite-pour-les-partis-de-la-koutla|title=Législatives 2011 – Marrakech: Grosse défaite pour les partis de la Koutla|language=fr|date=28 November 2011|access-date=23 October 2012|publisher=L'Economiste|archive-date=1 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201193720/http://www.leconomiste.com/article/889030-legislatives-2011brmarrakech-grosse-defaite-pour-les-partis-de-la-koutla|url-status=live}}</ref>  In the partial legislative elections for the Guéliz Ennakhil constituency in October 2012, the PDJ under the leadership of [[Ahmed El Moutassadik]] was again declared the winner with 10,452 votes. The PAM, largely consisting of friends of King [[Mohammed VI of Morocco|Mohammed VI]], came in second place with 9,794 votes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://mobile.leconomiste.com/article/899326-l-gislatives-partiellesmarrakech-le-pjd-garde-son-si-ge|title=Législatives partielles: Marrakech: Le PJD garde son siège|language=fr|access-date=23 October 2012|publisher=L'Economiste|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201192231/http://mobile.leconomiste.com/article/899326-l-gislatives-partiellesmarrakech-le-pjd-garde-son-si-ge|archive-date=1 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>