Huguette Bello

Huguette Bello
Huguette Bello in 2011
Member of the National Assembly for Réunion's 2nd constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 June 1997
Preceded by	Claude Hoarau
Member of the Regional Council of Réunion
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 December 2015
President	Didier Robert
Mayor of Saint-Paul
In office 2008–2014
Preceded by	Alain Bénard
Succeeded by	Joseph Sinimalé
Personal details
Born	(1950-08-24) 24 August 1950 Saint-Pierre, France
Political party	PCR
Profession	Teacher

Huguette Bello (born 24 August 1950) is a politician from Réunion and a member of the Reunionese Communist Party (PCR).

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 (Radical-citoyen-vert (fr)) parliamentary group, which included, among others, the Reunionese Communist Party, the Greens, and the Radical-Socialists, but not the PCF.

In 1997, Ms 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. She was re-elected in 2012 and 2017.

From March 2008 to 2014, Bello was also the mayor of Réunion's largest commune (municipality), 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%.

External links

• The Saint-Paul municipal council elects Huguette Bello as mayor on YouTube