Huguette Bello is a politician from R�union and a member of the Reunionese Communist Party. She is a deputy in the French National Assembly where she sits in the Gauche d�mocrate et r�publicaine parliamentary group, which includes the Greens, the French Communist Party and other left-wing deputies. She had previously belonged, from 1997 to 2002, to the Radical-citoyen-vert parliamentary group, which included, among others, the Reunionese Communist Party, the Greens, and the Radical-Socialists, but not the PCF. In 1997, Ms Bello became R�union's first ever female parliamentary deputy when she was elected to represent the 2nd constituency of the island in the French National Assembly. She was re-elected in 2002, and for a third term in 2007, on which occasion she gained 34,911 votes in the second round. Since March 2008, Bello has also been the mayor of R�union'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%. 

August 24th, 1950 in Saint-Pierre (Age 73)