The wife of a French Polynesia mayor who was allowed to defy the courts and stay in office says there is no basis to suggest there was a political arrangement to let him stay.
Last year, Cyril Tetuanui was given a suspended jail sentence and declared ineligible for public office for a year after France's highest court upheld the sentence given by the appeal court in Tahiti in 2008.
Last week, the French High Commission said the sentence was void because the court document had not been sent through within a year.
This has prompted an assembly member, Jacqui Drollet, to call on the French justice minister, Christiane Taubira, to investigate what he calls a grotesque situation.
But Lana Tetuanui has told local media that there can be no talk of an arrangement because for more than a year the Socialists have been in power and Mr Drollet has been on their side.
Cyril Tetuanui and Lana Tetuanui, who was a government minister under Gaston Flosse, had been found guilty of using municipal employees in 2002 for work on their private residence.
She is now a member of the ruling majority in the territorial assembly.
