President of Mauritius
Under the 1992 Constitution, the constitution of the Republic of Mauritius, the President replaced the monarch as ceremonial head of state. The President was elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term. In the event of a vacancy the Vice President served as Acting President.
- Status
| President | Term of office | Political party (at time of election) |
Prime Minister(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo |
12 March 1992 | 30 June 1992 | Mouvement Socialiste Militant | Jugnauth | |
| 2 | Cassam Uteem |
30 June 1992 | 15 February 2002 |
Mauritian Militant Movement | Jugnauth Ramgoolam Jugnauth |
|
| Angidi Chettiar |
15 February 2002 | 18 February 2002 |
Labour Party | Jugnauth | ||
| Ariranga Pillay |
18 February 2002 | 25 February 2002 | Jugnauth | |||
| 3 | Karl Offmann |
25 February 2002 | 1 October 2003 | Mouvement Socialiste Militant | Jugnauth | |
| Raouf Bundhun |
1 October 2003 | 7 October 2003 | Mouvement Socialiste Militant | Jugnauth | ||
| 4 | Sir Anerood Jugnauth |
7 October 2003 | 31 March 2012 |
Mouvement Socialiste Militant | Bérenger Ramgoolam |
|
| Monique Ohsan Bellepeau |
31 March 2012 | 21 July 2012 | Labour Party | Ramgoolam | ||
| 5 | 60px | Kailash Purryag |
21 July 2012 | Labour Party | Ramgoolam | |
Read more about this topic: List Of Heads Of State Of Mauritius
Famous quotes containing the word president:
“The President has apples on the table
And barefoot servants round him, who adjust
The curtains to a metaphysical t
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On the flag-poles in a red-blue dazzle, whack
At the halyards.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)