Monique Ohsan Bellepeau

Her Excellency Monique Ohsan Bellepeau G0SK
Vice President of Mauritius
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 November 2010
President	Anerood Jugnauth
Prime Minister	Navin Ramgoolam
Preceded by	Angidi Chettiar
President of Mauritius Labor Party
In office 24 August 2007 – 11 November 2010
Prime Minister	Navin Ramgoolam
Parliamentary Private Secretary
In office 1 July 1997 – 17 February 2000
Personal details
Born	Mauritius
Political party	Mauritian Labor Party
Spouse(s)	Yves Joseph Bellepeau
Profession	Journalist
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Agnès Monique Ohsan Bellepeau GOSK is the Vice President of the Republic of Mauritius. She won the parliamentary elections and was appointed on 12th November 2010 following the death of former Vice President, Angidi Chettiar. She was elected unanimously by all members of the National Assembly to serve also as First woman as Vice President of the Country .^[1] She was a member of the Mauritian Labor Party and later became the President of the Party . She is the grand 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 3 days after she was sworn in as Vice President. He died on the 16h of November 2010.

She took oath at State House (0fficial 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).^[2]

1. ^ http://www.defimedia.info/articles/12476/1/Monique-Ohsan-Bellepeau-is-Vice-President/Page1.html
2. ^ http://www.genderlinks.org.za/article/mauritius-gl-welcomes-first-woman-vice-president-2010-11-16

Political offices
Preceded by Angidi Chettiar	Vice President of Mauritius 2010-present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Ohsan Bellepeau, Monique
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