Abbas El Fassi

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Abbas El Fassi
عباس الفاسي


order = Prime Minister of Morocco
monarch = Mohammed VI
deputy =
term_start = 19 September 2007
term_end =
predecessor = Driss Jettou
successor =
birth_date = birth date and age|1940|09|18|df=y
birth_place = Berkane, Morocco
party = PI
religion = Islam

Abbas El Fassi (Arabic: عباس الفاسي; born on September 18, 1940) has served as the Prime Minister of Morocco since September 19, 2007. El Fassi, a member of the Istiqlal Party, replaced independent Driss Jettou.cite web|author=|year=2007|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663621,00.html?xid=rss-topstories|title=Morocco Names New Prime Minister|format=HTML|publisher=TIME Magazine|accessdate=2007-09-20|accessyear=2007]

El Fassi was born in Berkane, Morocco on September 18, 1940. He served as the Minister of Housing from 1977 to 1981, Minister of Handicraft and Social Affairs from 1981 to 1985, Ambassador to Tunisia and the Arab League from 1985 to 1990, Ambassador to France from 1990 to 1994, and as Minister of Employment, Professional training, Social Development and Solidarity from 2000 to 2002. He then took up the post of Minister of State in the Jettou government from 2002 to 2007.cite web|author=|year=2007|url=http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2186910,00.html|title=Morocco's new PM named|format=HTML|publisher=News 24|accessdate=2007-09-20|accessyear=2007] cite web|author=|year=2007|url=http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/politics/king_appoints_conser8927/view|title=King appoints conservative Abbas el Fassi Prime Minister|format=HTML|publisher=Maghreb Arabe Presse|accessdate=2007-09-20|accessyear=2007] King Mohammed VI appointed El Fassi as Prime Minister on September 19, 2007 following Istiqlal's victory in the parliamentary elections on September 7.

His government was appointed by Mohammed VI on October 15, with 33 members (not including El Fassi), including seven women. Four political parties were included in this government: Istiqlal, the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), the National Rally of Independents (RNI), and the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS). [ [http://www.jeuneafrique.com/pays/maroc/article_depeche.asp?art_cle=AFP25407leroiselici0 "Le roi nomme un nouveau gouvernement après des tractations difficiles"] , AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), October 15, 2007 fr icon.]

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* Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-IV), 2008.

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