Annette Georges, the Evita of Seychelles politics, bowed out gracefully from the party she helped found some 15 years ago on Sunday at the SNP Convention at the International Conference Centre. Annette, a lawyer by profession, had a brilliant and distinguished career at the Bar and was well respected by all her peers. She demonstrated great resourcefulness and had an amazing legal brain, able to absorb an abundance of factual details and legal problems and solve them with great legal skills and ingenuity. She will always be known as the woman who got her party out of hot water on more than one occasion. Annette is testimony, if testimony was ever needed, of the adage that behind every successful man stands a woman. Annette Georges is also the person who kept the party’s head above water as the treasurer. She gave her last financial report to the delegates who attended the Convention two weeks ago and left in style. She is succeeded by Vivienne Soundy, the new starlet in the SNP camp.
Annettte was much liked and respected by everyone in the party and outside and she will be sorely missed. She also enjoyed a cordial relationship with the Democratic Party and its leader, Paul Chow. She also commanded a grudging respect in the SPPF camp as she rarely, if ever, put a foot wrong politically. She was also the running mate and Vice-Presidential candidate for SNP and Ramkalawan in three consecutive presidential elections. Annette comes from a political family and his father, Mr. Philip Moulinie, was President James Mancham’s right-hand man. Like Mrs. Nichole Tirant-Gherardi, Annette gave up her lucrative law practice to set up a private business a few years ago. She clearly could not stomach the male dominated profession and found herself banging her head against a brick wall on more than one occasion. She finally decided to call it a day and devote herself more to her husband, political activities, and her private business. She is the perfect role model for every Seychellois woman as she navigated the murky waters of Seychelles politics and surprisingly managed to steer herself well away from political controversy. As Simone De Comarmond, the Ex-SPPF Minister, once found out at her peril, it does not pay to have a go at Annette. Once, in desperation, she notoriously lashed out at Annette in an SPPF rally and caused pandemonium as public sympathy quickly sided with Annette. Since then no one dares attack Annette again as she kept a dignified silence throughout the whole affair and refused to succumb to the urge to strike back. That was the mark and quality of Annette. Her patience, devotion, astuteness and political savvy served her well over the years. Her contribution to