26 Sep 2015, Mauritius --- Portrait of President Ameenah Gurib Fakim. Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim is a Mauritian biodiversity scientist who serves as President of Mauritius. After Kailash Purryag resigned on 29 May 2015, both Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth, and leader of the Opposition Paul Berenger, positively welcomed her nomination, which was unanimously approved in a vote in the National Assembly.Gurib-Fakim is the first woman elected President of the country and is the third woman to serve as Head of State following Elizabeth II and Monique Ohsan Bellepeau --- Image by Micheline Pelletier/Corbis
There is a video on YouTube of the president of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim doing her marketing near her home in Quatre Bornes, a town in the Plaines Wilhems District. It was shortly after Ameenah became the first woman president of the island nation and Mauritian news agency l’express were documenting (presumably) a day-in-the-life type of footage of the newly elected president’s weekend routine.
As she picks her tomatoes and greens, market vendors and patrons come over to congratulate her on being unanimously elected president by the country’s National Assembly after the resignation of her predecessor, Kailash Purryag in May last year.
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