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Tahoeraa dominates first round of French Polynesia election
The Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party of Gaston Flosse has emerged as the clear winner of the first round of French Polynesia's territorial election. According to preliminary results, it secured more than...
Updated at 4:15 am on 23 April 2013
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Early results from French Polynesia show strong support for Tahoeraa Huiraatira
Polls have closed in French Polynesia after the first round of voting for a new 57-member territorial assembly. Initial preliminary results from the Gambier islands show Gaston Flosse's opposition Tahoeraa...
Updated at 7:07 pm on 22 April 2013
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Polls open in French Polynesia
Voters in French Polynesia are going to the polls today in the first round of the territorial election for a new 57-member assembly. They will choose among nine lists of...
Updated at 5:13 am on 22 April 2013
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Election campaigning nears end in French Polynesia
Campaigning is near its end in French Polynesia as voters will go to the polls in two days to elect a new 57-member assembly. They will choose among nine lists...
Updated at 8:48 am on 20 April 2013
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French Polynesia leader wants Flosse kept out of elections
French Polynesia's president, Oscar Temaru, says everything has to be done to ensure the opposition's Gaston Flosse won't come back to power in this year's territorial election. In a extensive...
Updated at 5:18 am on 15 April 2013
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National Front's Le Pen prefers immoral republic in Tahiti over no republic
The leader of France's National Front says she would rather have an immoral republic in French Polynesia than no republic at all. Marine Le Pen made the comment after returning...
Updated at 8:58 am on 27 March 2013
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National Front's Le Pen prefers immoral republic in Tahiti than no republic
The leader of France's National Front says she would prefer an immoral republic in French Polynesia than no republic at all. Marine Le Pen made the comment after returning from...
Updated at 8:58 am on 27 March 2013
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Campaining in French Polynesia
Campaigning is underway in French Polynesia for the territorial elections to choose a new assembly for a five-year term. A new electoral system is in place for the two rounds...
Updated at 4:49 pm on 26 March 2013
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Thousands join opposition rally in French Polynesia
An estimated 10,000 people in French Polynesia have joined an election rally of the opposition Tahoeraa Huiraatira in Papeete. The rally has been the biggest in Tahiti in years and...
Updated at 6:44 am on 25 March 2013
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Tahiti's Flosse convicted for abusing public funds
The court of appeal in Papeete has upheld the conviction of French Polynesia's veteran politician, Gaston Flosse, for abusing public funds. Flosse was found guilty last year of using the...
Updated at 1:31 pm on 22 March 2013
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Tahiti's Flosse takes legal action against Le Monde
French Polynesia's veteran politician, Gaston Flosse, has lodged a formal complaint against the French newspaper Le Monde over last week's article about the 1997 disappearance of a Tahiti journalist, Jean-Pascal...
Updated at 6:43 pm on 20 March 2013
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Tahiti compensation case over Leontieff disappearance rebuffed
A court in French Polynesia has rejected a request for compensation to be paid to the widow of Boris Leontieff, the opposition politician who vanished 11 years ago. He was...
Updated at 12:46 pm on 15 March 2013
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Tahiti's Couraud disappearance case close to resolution, says Le Monde
The French newspaper Le Monde says three men in French Polynesia may be charged with murder over the 1997 disappearance of a local journalist, Jean-Pascal Couraud - nine years after...
Updated at 7:26 pm on 14 March 2013
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Flosse dismisses multi-billion China loan plan for Tahiti
French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira has categorically dismissed claims that it plans to get a five-billion US dollar loan from China for large-scale projects. This had been repeatedly suggested by Teva...
Updated at 6:58 pm on 26 February 2013
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Sandras out of French Polynesia's A Tia Porinetia
There has been a shake-up of French Polynesia's newly formed opposition A Tia Porinetia group. It has issued a statement, saying Bruno Sandras has quit amid apparent disagreement over where...
Updated at 11:17 am on 21 February 2013
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11 take Tahiti phantom job conviction to France's highest court
A total of 11 people convicted in French Polynesia's court of appeal over their roles in the phantom job affair have decided to challenge their sentences in France's highest court.
Updated at 12:36 pm on 18 February 2013
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Temaru names Tahiti's UN decolonisation sponsors
French Polynesia's president, Oscar Temaru, has named the three countries which he says have sponsored his government's bid at the United Nations to reinscribe French Polynesia on the decolonisation list.
Updated at 5:13 am on 11 February 2013
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Flosse to appeal conviction in Tahiti phantom job case
French Polynesia's former president, Gaston Flosse, says he will take his latest corruption conviction to France's highest court. This came immediately after the appeal court in Tahiti upheld his conviction...
Updated at 9:31 am on 9 February 2013
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French Polynesia's Flosse gets four-year suspended jail sentence
The French Polynesian court of appeal has given a former president, Gaston Flosse, a four-year suspended jail sentence for corruption. He has also been fined 170,000 US dollars for running...
Updated at 9:29 am on 8 February 2013
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Brot named new French High Commissioner to New Caledonia
France has named a new High Commissioner to New Caledonia to succeed Albert Dupuy. The government has chosen Jean-Jacques Brot after a recommendation by the interior minister, Manuel Valls. Mr...
Updated at 1:57 pm on 25 January 2013
