Gaetan Jabeemisar is a Mauritian politician who served as the

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from 12 January 2011 to 11 February 2012. He assumed the position following the resignation of the former Chief Commissioner,

Johnson Roussety Johnson Roussety is the current Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues in Mauritius. He held the same position from 4 August 2006 to 7 January 2011. Early life and education Roussety was born on 27 August 1975. He attended Oysterbay Government School i ...

, who was under a motion of

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. Hailing from the village of Corail-Petite-Butte on

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island, Jabeemissar completed his secondary studies before working in education for 27 years. He left this job to enter politics as a member of the

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party, and was elected to the Rodrigues Regional Assembly during its first elections in 2002. He was re-elected in 2006 and rose to the position of Deputy Chief Commissioner. After the forced resignation of Chief Commissioner Johnson Roussety, Jabeemissar was sworn in to the same position by President

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on 12 January 2011. In 2012, after 13 months at the helm, he was re-elected to the Rodrigues Regional Assembly. He was Minority Leader of the legislature, but was not re-elected in the

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Living people 20th-century births Chief commissioners of Rodrigues Members of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly Rodrigues Movement politicians People from Rodrigues Year of birth missing (living people) Mauritian Creoles {{Mauritius-politician-stub