Monique Ohsan Bellepeau

Agnès Monique Ohsan Bellepeau GOSK (born 1942) is a Mauritian politician who has been President of Mauritius since 2012. Previously she was Vice President of Mauritius from 2010 to 2012.

Career

She won the parliamentary elections and was appointed as Vice President on 12 November 2010 following the death of Vice President Angidi Chettiar. She was elected unanimously by all members of the National Assembly to be become the first female Vice President of Mauritius. She was a member of the Mauritian Labor Party and later became the President of the Party. She is the daughter of Bartholomée Ohsan, who was a founding member of the party. She is a journalist by profession and also was a news annnouncer on the national TV channel, the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation.

She was married to Yves Joseph Bellepeau, who was a businessman and who died three days after she was sworn in as Vice President. He died on 16 November 2010.

She took oath at State House (Official Residence of the President), Réduit on Saturday morning. On the same day, she was called on to be the Acting President soon after the President, Sir Anerood Jugnauth, left for India in the evening.

In 2009, she was decorated by President Jugnauth as Grand Officer of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean. She therefore uses the honorific suffix (GOSK).^[1]

References

v t e Vice President of Mauritius Rabindranath Ghurburrun • Angidi Chettiar • Raouf Bundhun • Angidi Chettiar • Monique Ohsan Bellepeau

v t e Presidents of Mauritius Ringadoo* • Uteem • Chettiar* • Pillay* • Offmann • Bundhun* • Jugnauth • Bellepeau* *interim