19 Dec 2019

Ructions in Tahiti as municipal elections loom

From , 5:01 am on 19 December 2019

As local elections in French Polynesia are just three months away, new political ructions have come to fore.

Forty-eight communes are due to choose their administrations in March.

The capital Papeete is seeing controversy as the veteran politician Gaston Flosse wants to make a comeback there.

Walter Zweifel has been following developments and he told Koroi Hawkins what the controversy is all about.

Gaston Flosse

Gaston Flosse Photo: RNZ