Huguette Bello
Huguette Bello | |
|---|---|
 Huguette Bello in 2023 | |
| President of the Regional Council of Réunion | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Didier Robert |
| Mayor of Saint-Paul, Réunion | |
| In office 4 July 2020 – 8 July 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Sinimalé |
| In office 21 March 2008 – 6 April 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Alain Bénard |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Sinimalé |
| Member of the National Assembly for Réunion's 2nd constituency | |
| In office 12 June 1997 – 7 July 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Claude Hoarau |
| Succeeded by | Karine Lebon |
| Member of the Regional Council of Réunion | |
| Assumed office 16 December 2015 | |
| President | Didier Robert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Marie-Huguette Bello 24 August 1950 Saint-Pierre, Réunion, France |
| Political party | PCR (before 2012) PLR (after 2012) |
| Profession | Teacher |
Huguette Bello (born 24 August 1950) is a French politician from Réunion.
A former member of the Reunionese Communist Party (PCR), she split with the Communists in 2012 and formed her own party, For Réunion (French: Pour la Réunion, PLR).
She is a deputy in the French National Assembly, where she sits in the Gauche démocrate et républicaine (Democratic and Republican Left) parliamentary group, which includes the French Communist Party (PCF) and other left-wing deputies. She had previously belonged, from 1997 to 2002, to the Radical-Citizen-Green Group parliamentary group, which included, among others, the Reunionese Communist Party, the Greens, and the Radical-Socialists, but not the PCF.
In 1997, Bello became Réunion's first ever female parliamentary deputy when she was elected to represent the 2nd constituency of the island in the French National Assembly. She was re-elected in 2002, and for a third term in 2007, on which occasion she gained 34,911 votes (59.6%) in the second round.[1] She was re-elected in 2012 and 2017.
From March 2008 to 2014, Bello was also the mayor of Réunion's largest commune, Saint-Paul. In the second round of voting in the French municipal elections of 2008, the list of candidates headed by Bello defeated that of the sitting UMP mayor by a margin of just 0.3%.[2] In 2020 Bello won mayorship election in Saint-Paul once again.
External links
References
- ^ Le site officiel du ministère de l'Intérieur de l'Outre-mer et des Collectivités Territoriales
- ^ "Antenne Réunion: municipal election results". Archived from the original on 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
