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Mar 29, 1930 Vacoas Phoenix, Plaines Wilhems District, Mauritius 94 years old
Mauritian politician
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About Anerood Jugnauth
- Sir Anerood Jugnauth GCSK, KCMG, QC, MP, PC (born 29 March 1930) is a Mauritian politician and barrister who has served as both President and Prime Minister of Mauritius.
- He is Member of Parliament for Piton & Riviere Du Rempart. A central figure of Mauritian politics in the 1980s and 1990s, Jugnauth has continuously (except for the periods 1995–2000 and 2012–2014) held a constitutional office since 1976.
- He was Leader of the Opposition from 1976 to 1982.
- He served as Prime Minister from 1982 to 1995 and again from 2000 to 2003.
- He was then elected as President of Mauritius and served as such from 2003 to 2012.
- Following his party's victory in the 2014 general elections, he was appointed again to serve his sixth term as Prime Minister by President Kailash Purryag on 14 December 2014. He served four consecutive terms as Prime Minister from 1982 to 1995 and was then voted out of office from 1995 to 2000.
- He is the longest serving prime minister with more than 18 years of tenure thus overtaking Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, who held the office for 14 years.
- As leader of the Militant Socialist Movement, he became Prime Minister again, for a fifth term, after the 2000 election.
- His alliance partner, Paul Bérenger of the Mauritian Militant Movement, succeeded him in 2003 after serving as Jugnauth's deputy for three years.
- Jugnauth was then elected President in 2003.
- Often nicknamed as Rambo (a film character known to be unbeatable), he maintained a historical political career as, under his leadership, his party/alliances won 5 general parliamentary elections in a row, those in 1976, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1991.
- His party/alliances won 7 general elections (out of 8) where he was leader and presented as prime ministerial candidate.
- He is also the only Mauritian who served as an elected member on each level in the country as he first served as village & town Councillor (being elected as a Councillor for Palma village in 1956 and again Councillor for the town of Vacoas-Phoenix in 1964).
- He then served as a Member of Parliament (elected in 1963), became Minister of State in 1965 which preceded his appointment as Minister of Labour in 1966 by Seewoosagur Ramgoolam.
- He then led the MMM in its first electoral campaign and was presented as Prime Minister in 1976.
- The MMM won but could not govern due to a hung parliament and Jugnauth became Leader of the Opposition up to 1982 where the MMM-PSM alliance won all the seats.
- He became Prime Minister up to 1995.
- He was appointed again as Prime Minister in 2000 and finally President in 2003.
- He is the only prime minister to have had a sibling and his son in his own cabinet from 2000 to 2003. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn.
- He was a cabinet minister during the leadership of Seewoosagur Ramgoolam from 1965 up to 1969.
- In 1970, he moved out and went to the newly created political party of the Mauritian Militant Movement, where he eventually became its leader in 1982.
- He created his own political party called Militant Socialist Movement in 1983 and was once more elected.
- His party remained in power up to 1995.
- In 2000, he was once more elected prime minister and served until 2003, when he was sworn into the presidency.
- From the beginning of his first mandate as Prime Minister he expressed his country's readiness to establish strong economic ties, particularly in creating technology-based projects with economic feasibility.
- Jugnauth is credited with the legacy of Mauritius’ "economic miracle" of the 1980s – a set of policies such as the revitalization of the duty-free trade zone and establishing Mauritius as a leader in textiles production – which allowed the island to develop an economic presence in the region.He founded the Militant Socialist Movement party in 1983.
- He was honoured with Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards for his continued support for India's causes and concerns and for strengthening India's relationship with Mauritius.
- He has expressed his country's readiness to establish strong economic ties, particularly in creating technology-based projects. He was made Queen's Counsel in 1980 and was made a member of the Privy Council in 1983.
- He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988 when Mauritius was still one of the Queen's realms and the Queen was titular head of state.
- Therefore, he still uses his formal title of Sir Anerood and also the prefix used by Privy Councillors, The Right Honourable.
- His name is often abbreviated as 'SAJ' being the initials of Sir Anerood Jugnauth.
- He is currently one of the last Mauritian Knights of the United Kingdom and is the last Mauritian to be member of the Privy Council. Following his resignation as President on 30 March 2012 due to major disagreement with the members of the government., he led the main opposition coalition MSM/MMM from 2012 to mid-2014. However, in April 2014, Paul Berenger announced the dissolution of the coalition due to major disagreement within both parties.
- Later Berenger announced a coalition between the Labour Party and the Mauritian Militant Movement.
- Jugnauth is since then leading a coalition composed of the Militant Socialist Movement, PMSD and the ML which is a break-away group of individuals who resigned from the MMM due to the coalition with the Labour Party.
- Jugnauth's alliance known as "L'Alliance LEPEP" won the 2014 general elections. On 12 September 2016, Jugnauth announced that he would be resigning as Prime Minister very soon due to his advanced age.
- He confirmed that Pravind Jugnauth would eventually succeed him, being the leader of the Militant Socialist Movement.
- On 23 January 2017, he eventually resigned as prime minister to make way for his son to become prime minister.
- While this is view as constitutionally possible under the Westminster system of government, the hand-over of power from father to son has been considered as highly controversial and all opposition parties are organizing major manifestations to denounce this.
