Patrick Herminie

Patrick Herminie, 2014

Patrick Matthew Antonio Herminie (born September 22, 1963 ) is a politician of the People's Party (Parti Lepep) of the Seychelles , who was spokesman for the National Assembly from 2007 to 2016 .

Life

Herminie graduated from school with a degree in medicine at the Nuffield Institute of the University of Leeds , which he graduated with a Masters in Public Health . He later obtained a doctorate in medicine from Charles University in Prague .

He began his political career on the progressive front of the Seychellois people and in 1992 became a member of the commission for the drafting of the Constitution of the Third Republic. In the National Assembly elections, the first election since 1974, he was first elected a member of the National Assembly for the Progress Front in the English River constituency and was re-elected in that constituency in the 1998 election. At the same time he was chairman of his parliamentary group between 1998 and 2003 and thus the majority leader in parliament. He was also a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Progress Front from 1998 to 2011 , which has been the current People's Party (Parti Lepep) since 2009 . In the 2003 election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly in the English River constituency.

On May 29, 2007, Herminie was elected for the first time as speaker of the National Assembly and thus President of Parliament. At the same time, he acts as the chairman of the rules of procedure committee. In the elections in October 2011, he was re-elected both as a member of parliament and as spokesman for the National Assembly and continues to serve as Chairman of the Rules Committee and the Committee on Reforms and Modernization. After the parliamentary elections from September 8 to 10, 2016, the former long-term minister Patrick Pillay was elected as his successor as Speaker of the National Assembly .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (accessed on November 13, 2015)