Patrick Herminie

About

Patrick Herminie (born 22 September 1963) is a Seychellois politician currently serving as the President of the Republic of Seychelles since October 2025.
He served as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Seychelles from 2007 to 2016. He was first elected to the Assembly in 1993 and served as the Leader of Government Business from 1998 to 2003. A former member of the People’s Party, Herminie ran in the 2025 presidential election as the candidate for United Seychelles (US).
Following the opposition’s victory in the September 2016 parliamentary election, Patrick Pillay was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly, succeeding Patrick Herminie on 27 September 2016.

== Early life, education and career ==
Patrick Herminie was born on 22 September 1963 at Baie St. Anne Praslin Hospital, on Seychelles’ second-largest island. He was the fourth of five children in a family where his mother, Christa Herminie (née Jules), was a housewife, and his father, Louis Herminie, worked as a policeman.
A few years after Patrick was born, his parents, who had been living on Praslin due to his father’s work posting, moved back to Mahé, the mainland of Seychelles. There, they settled and raised their…