# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wavel-ramkalawan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:44:41.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wavel-ramkalawan"
name: "Wavel Ramkalawan"
slug: "wavel-ramkalawan"
description: "Wavel Ramkalawan is a Seychellois politician and Anglican priest who served as the 5th President of Seychelles from 2020 to 2025. Ramkalawan was an opposition MP from 1993 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition from 1998 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. On 25 October 2020, Ramkalawan won the presidential election, the country's first such victory for an opposition candidate since independence, marking its first successful peaceful transition of power. On 11 October 2025, he lost his reelection bid for a second term to Patrick Herminie, a member of the United Seychelles Party."
tagline: "Seychellois politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wavel_Ramkalawan_-_president_of_Seychelles_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1961-03-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.24812030075188
  historical:           20.66797333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump