Tag: Tapura Huiraatira
French Polynesia set for president who favours independence after election
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...
Tahitian voters go to polls for crucial run-off territorial election
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...
Tahiti’s Fritch warns against ‘chaos’ if his anti-independence party loses
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...
Tahiti’s pro-independence party tops vote — another winning streak?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva in Pape’ete
As the ballots were counted after the first day of voting in Mā’ohi Nui/French Polynesia territorial election first...
French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote
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...
Fritch slams Tahiti pro-independence wins for Paris as ‘catastrophic’
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...
Tong Sang voted in as new French Polynesia assembly president
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...
