Kouloub Faitah has stepped into Morocco’s new cabinet under decidedly legal credentials. Appointed this Friday by King Mohammed VI, the Tangier-based lawyer takes up the post of minister delegate to the Head of Government, in charge of relations with Parliament and civil society, as part of the team assembled by Fatima Zahra Mansouri.
Her selection stands out in a reshuffle otherwise dominated by technocrats and party veterans. Faitah arrives with a résumé built on courtroom practice and committee work rather than ministry corridors, and she now holds one of the government’s more delicate portfolios: the one that keeps the executive branch talking to lawmakers.
A graduate in private law with a master’s degree in criminal sciences and security studies from Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Faitah built her legal practice around family law along with civil, social and commercial disputes. Legal consultation, client support and the preparation and follow-up of court files have formed the backbone of her professional work, expertise she carried from local courtrooms into national politics.
Elected to the House of Representatives for the Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma region during the 2021-2026 legislature, she rose to become first vice-president of the Justice, Legislation, Human Rights and Freedoms Committee. She also sat on the temporary thematic working group tasked with gender equality and parity, an assignment that now looks like a rehearsal for the broader civil-society brief she has just been handed.
Overseeing parliamentary relations puts Faitah at the centre of efforts to keep the Mansouri government’s legislative agenda moving, at a moment when lawmakers face a packed calendar topped by the 2027 budget bill. Her added responsibility for civil society ties gives her a second, arguably trickier mandate: building bridges between the cabinet and the associations, unions and grassroots groups whose buy-in often determines whether a government’s reforms survive contact with the public.
For analysts tracking the new line-up, her appointment reads as a signal that legal rigor and parliamentary experience, rather than purely political weight, carried real currency in the Palace’s final calculations, a detail that may matter as the government’s early legislative tests begin.
