31 Aug 2013

Demonstration against planned return of retired French High Commissioner to run Air Tahiti

4:21 am on 31 August 2013

A demonstration is planned outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia against the increased hiring of expatriates for key positions in territorial organisations.

Out of work local graduates have taken to the streets recently and a new demonstration is planned today after the territorial government announced it would hire a retired French High Commissioner to run Air Tahiti.

The opposition's media spokesperson, Moetai Brotherson, says the position was never advertised.

"We have young people, I would in their 30s or mid-40s, who are currently working in France, in the US or in many European countries because the could not find a position here."

The opposition's media spokesperson, Moetai Brotherson