Badia Skalli

Badia Skalli (born 1944) is a Moroccan politician. Alongside Latifa Bennani-Smires, she became one of the first two women in the House of Representatives when she was elected to parliament in 1993.

Biography Skalli was born in El Jadida in 1944. She began studying law at the Casablanca branch of Mohammed V University in 1962, where she became involved in student politics, joining the executive committee of the National Union of Moroccan Students. Following student protests in 1965, all members of the committee were drafted into the army except Skalli. Following the elections, the USFP planned to appoint her president of the council. However, the resulting uproar led to the party appointing a less experienced male councillor. She was re-elected in 1997, but lost her seat in the 2002 elections, when the USFP failed to include her on its women's list.