Tag: Tahitian elections

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's presidential candidate Moetai Brotherson has named four ministers in his proposed government, and confirmed he will vacate...

By Stefan Armbruster A pro-independence party has decisively won elections in French Polynesia, marking a historic shift in one of France’s Pacific territories. Veteran politician Oscar...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva Mā'ohi Nui's blue wave of the pro-independence Tavini Huir'atira has won its bet -- to be back in the helm...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huira'atira party has won the election for a new 57-member Territorial Assembly, paving the way...

RNZ Pacific Voting has started in French Polynesia in the second round to elect a new Territorial Assembly for a five-year term. About 200,000 voters can...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter Politicians in French Polynesia have reacted with scorn over the ruling party's hastily-convened electoral alliance with an opposition party,...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's President Édouard Fritch has warned of "chaos", should his party lose power to the pro-independence Tavini Huira'atira. In...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party has come out on top in the first round of the territorial elections. The...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter Campaigning for French Polynesia's territorial elections has entered its final week. Dressed in their parties' respective colours, supporters of several...

By Antoine Samoyeau in Pape’ete About 3000 activists of French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party met for six hours at the weekend with the executives...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's President Édouard Fritch has described the election of three candidates of the pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party to the French National Assembly...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse says he is in mourning because the French state has signed his political death by banning him...

RNZ Pacific France's highest court has upheld a corruption conviction of French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse, effectively ending his political career. It confirmed a 2020...

French Polynesia's Territorial Assembly has elected the ruling Tapura Huiraatira party's Gaston Tong Sang as its new assembly president for a five-year term, reports...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk French President Emmanuel Macron today began a three-day visit to New Caledonia - six months before the territory's vote on independence...