Eddy Boissézon
Marie Cyril Edouard "Eddy" Boissézon was a Mauritian politician who served as vice-president of Mauritius from 2019 to 2024.
Initially a member of the Mauritian Militant Movement, Boissézon joined Muvman Liberater in 2014. He was elected as a member of the National Assembly from 1995 to 2000, and again from 2014 to 2019. Boissézon was appointed Minister of Civil Service and Administrative Reforms in January 2017 and served until November 2019 under Pravind Jugnauth's first government.
Early life and career
Boissézon was born on 28 March 1952 and attended secondary school at Saint Joseph's College in Curepipe. He would go on to serve the same institution by becoming a teacher in accountancy.Afterwards, Boissézon worked at Barclays as a bank office and later as a purchasing and supply manager at Scott & Co. Ltd. He was also executive director at ATICS & Co. Ltd.
Political career
Boissézon started his political career by becoming a municipal councillor of Vacoas-Phoenix in 1991 and served as its Deputy Mayor from 1991 to 1993. He contested as a candidate for the National Assembly for the first time in 1995 under the constituency of Mahébourg and Plaine Magnien. Boissézon ran under the banner of PTr–MMM, under the Mauritian Militant Movement.Boissézon won the election after the alliance won all mainland constituencies of Mauritius, resulting in the second 60–0 victory in the country's electoral history. During his time as an MP, he would represent Mauritius in the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly in both years of 1996 and 1997.
In 2014, along with Ivan Collendavelloo and others, he would defect from the Mauritian Militant Movement and join Muvman Liberater. He was elected as secretary-general of the party.
Boissézon became a candidate for ML in the general election held in December 2014. His party had formed an alliance with the Militant Socialist Movement under the Alliance Lepep. Boissézon ran under the constituency of La Caverne and Phoenix and would go on to win the constituency, along with his running mates Tulsiraj Benydin from the ML and Showkutally Soodhun from the Militant Socialist Movement.
Following the alliance's victory in the election, Boissézon was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary under Anerood Jugnauth's government which he would serve until Jugnauth's resignation in January 2017. He would receive his first ministerial appointment under Pravind Jugnauth's first government in that same month becoming Minister of Civil Service and Administrative Reforms.
He ran for re-election in 2019 under the constituency of Curepipe and Midlands for the Alliance Morisien, however he failed to get elected for the constituency.
Boissézon was proposed as the alliance's candidate for vice-president of Mauritius on 2 December 2014 and was duly elected unopposed to the position along with Prithvirajsing Roopun, who was elected as president of the Republic.
Personal life and death
Boissézon was married to Connie Boissézon and had three children. He was a keen player of football, volleyball and track and field.After a long illness, Boissézon died on 1 November 2025, at the age of 73.