Huguette Bello (born 24 August 1950) is a French politician from Réunion.

A former member of the Reunionese Communist Party (PCR), she split with the Communists in 2012 and formed her own party, For Réunion (French: Pour la Réunion, PLR).

She is a deputy in the French National *embly, where she sits in the Gauche démocrate et républicaine (Democratic and Republican Left) parliamentary group, which includes the French Communist Party (PCF) and other left-wing deputies. She had previously belonged, from 1997 to 2002, to the Radical-Citizen-Green (Radical-citoyen-vert (fr)) parliamentary group, which included, among others, the Reunionese Communist Party, the Greens, and the Radical-Socialists, but not the PCF.

In 1997, Bello became Réunion's first ever female parliamentary deputy when she was elected to represent the 2nd cons*uency of the island in the French National *embly. She was re-elected in 2002, and for a third term in 2007, on which occasion she gained 34,911 votes (59.6%) in the second round.She was re-elected in 2012 and 2017.

From March 2008 to 2014, Bello was also the mayor of Réunion's largest commune, Saint-Paul. In the second round of voting in the French municipal elections of 2008, the list of candidates headed by Bello defeated that of the sitting UMP mayor by a margin of just 0.3%. In 2020 Bello won mayorship election in Saint-Paul once again.

External links

• The Saint-Paul municipal council elects Huguette Bello as mayor on YouTube

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