The French High Commission in French Polynesia has confirmed the alleged impunity of a mayor who was convicted for abuse of public money by the French supreme court.
Last year, Cyril Tetuanui was given a one-year suspended prison sentence and declared ineligible for public office for a year.
In August, a French Polynesian assembly member, Jacqui Drollet, asked the French justice minister when the ruling would be enacted because Cyril Tetuanui continued to be the mayor of Tumara'a on Raiatea.
He had also asked the French High Commission why the court ruling wasn't applied.
According to local media reports, the High Commission now says the sentence is void because the court had not sent through the document within one year.
Cyril Tetuanui and his wife, who is a former government minister under Gaston Flosse, had been found guilty of using municipal employees in 2002 for work on their private residence.
