Marie-Laure Phinera-Horth (born 28 June 1957) is a French politician, who was the first woman from French Guiana to be appointed to the French Senate in 2020. Prior to her role as a senator, she was mayor of Cayenne from 2010.
Marie-Laure Phinera-Horth (born 28 June 1957) is a French politician, who was the first woman from French Guiana to be appointed to the French Senate in 2020. Prior to her role as a senator, she was mayor of Cayenne from 2010.
Phinéra-Horth joined the Guianese Socialist Party (PSG) in 1988, of which she was treasurer for two years. She was elected as a municipal councillor of Cayenne in 1995, re-elected in 2001 and 2008. From 1995 to 2008 she was the sixth deputy to mayor Jean-Claude Lafontaine; then first deputy to his successor Rodolphe Alexandre. When the latter acceded to the presidency of the regional council, she was elected to succeed him as mayor on 8 April 2010. [1]
Supported by both the PSG and Walwari, in 2014 Phinéra-Horth left Alexandre's “Guiana 73” movement. [1] [2] On 23 March 2014, she was re-elected and won the municipal elections in the first round with 6,976 votes, or 69.75%. She was officially invested by the municipal council on 28 March.
On 20 May 2016, she founded a new political party - Guyana's New Force (fr), which is primarily active in Cayenne. [3] Leading an NFG-Walwari-PSG-Guyane Écologie union list, she again won the 2020 elections with 60.46% of the vote. [1] Phinéra-Horth was elected French Guiana's first female senator on 27 September 2020. [4] [5]
In May 2021, as part of an appearance on the television programme Politik Hebdo, Phinéra-Horth revealed that she was opposed to COVID-19 vaccinations. [6] In February 2022, she was taken to court, accused of falsely collecting a salary as a speech therapist during her time as mayor from 2013 to 2016. [7]
The history of French Guiana dates back to the period prior to European colonization. Prior to the arrival of the first Europeans, there was no written history in the territory. It was originally inhabited by a number of Native American peoples, among them the Kalina (Caribs), Arawak, Galibi, Palikur, Teko, Wayampi, and Wayana. The first Europeans arrived in the expeditions of Christopher Columbus, shortly before 1500.
French Guiana is not a separate territory but is both an overseas région and overseas department of France, with the same government institutions as areas on the French mainland. The administrative center is Cayenne.
Cayenne is the capital city of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. The city stands on a former island at the mouth of the Cayenne River on the Atlantic coast. The city's motto is "fert aurum industria", which means "work brings wealth". Cayenne is the largest Francophone city of the South American continent.
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