Navin Ramgoolam

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Navinchandra Ramgoolam (born 14 July 1947) is a Mauritian politician, physician and barrister who has been Prime Minister of Mauritius since November 2024, an office he previously held from 1995 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2014. He has led the Labour Party since 1991 and has also been Minister of Finance since 2024. The son of Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, who led Mauritius to independence in 1968 and was its first prime minister, he trained as a doctor in Dublin and worked in hospitals in Ireland, England and Mauritius before reading law at the London School of Economics and being called to the bar in 1993. Ramgoolam became Labour's leader and Leader of the Opposition in 1991. In alliance with Paul Bérenger's Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM), Labour won every seat on the island of Mauritius at the 1995 general election. His first government replaced the sales tax with value-added tax, legislated against domestic violence and for a national human rights commission, provided for private broadcasting...

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