{{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Ginette Gamatis | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|12|26|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = | occupation = Politician | years_active = | nationality = | citizenship = | known_for = | networth = | title = member of the National Assembly of Seychelles | spouse = Philippe Gamatis (died {{circa|2007}}) }}
'''Ginette Gamatis''' ({{Nee|Bibi}}, born 1944) is a Seychellois teacher and politician. From 1983 to its dissolution in 1993, she was a member of the People's Assembly of Seychelles. From 1993 to 2011, she was member of the National Assembly of Seychelles as a representative of Port Glaud.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=4 October 2008 |title=Seychelles National Assembly {{!}} Members {{!}} MNA For Port-Glaud |url=http://www.nationalassembly.gov.sc/pages/memprof/pg.aspx |access-date=2024-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004013927/http://www.nationalassembly.gov.sc/pages/memprof/pg.aspx |archive-date=2008-10-04 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Lablache |first=John |last2=Amla |first2=Hajira |date=18 June 2015 |title=The evolution of legislative representation in Seychelles – first parliamentary museum opens |url=http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/3164/The+evolution+of+legislative+representation+in+Seychelles+-+first+parliamentary+museum+opens |access-date=2025-01-21 |agency=Seychelles News Agency}}</ref> She is a member of the Seychelles People's Progressive Front,<ref name=":0" /> and former member of Seychelles People's United Party.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=15 February 2011 |title=Up Close … with the doyen of the National Assembly, Ginette Gamatis-My firm belief in the strength of our women |url=https://www.nation.sc/archive/229606/up-close-?-with-the-doyen-of-the-national-assembly-ginette-gamatis-my-firm-belief-in-the-strength-of-our-women |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Seychelles Nation}}</ref>
Gamatis was born on 26 December 1944. She is from Port Glaud. She became a supply teacher when she was sixteen. She took a two-course teacher training course and eventually became headmistress of her school. Gamatis left teaching and was elected to the People's Assembly of Seychelles in 1983. In 1993, she joined the Seychelles People's Progressive Front and was elected to represent Port Glaud in the National Assembly.<ref name=":2" /> She retired from politics in 2011.<ref name=":1" />
She and her husband, Philippe Gamatis (died {{Circa|2007}}), had ten children. One of their sons died in the early 2000s, at the age of 32.<ref name=":2" /> One of her younger brothers, Jordan Bibi (1946/1947-2020), worked as a personal assistant and translator for Bruce Greatbatch.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 September 2020 |title=Jourdan Bibi, former personal assistant to Governor Bruce Greatbatch, passes away |url=https://www.nation.sc/articles/6228/jourdan-bibi-former-personal-assistant-to-governor-bruce-greatbatch-passes-away |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Seychelles Nation }}</ref>
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== External links == {{Wikiquote|Ginette Gamatis}}
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