Fetia Api

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The Fetia Api or Nouvelle Étoile (English: New Star) is a political party in French Polynesia. The party was led by . It was subsequently led by Philip Schyle.

It is linked with New Centre for helping the public financial contribution.[1]

On 24 May 2002 a light plane carrying party leader and other candidates for the party disappeared on a flight to Makemo in the Tuamotus.[2] The French colonial government refused to delay the elections.[3]

At the 2004 election the party contested with its own list,[4] winning one seat.[5] Following the elections the party held the balance of power,[6] and sided with pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru.[7] Following the collapse of Temaru's government the party united with Nicole Bouteau to contest the Windward Islands by-elections as the Alliance for a New Democracy (ADN).[8][9] The party did not join the subsequent Temaru government.[10]

In 2006 the party's leader Philip Schyle was elected President of the Assembly.[11] He was elected for a second term in 2009.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "French Polynesia's Schyle gets French party role". RNZ. 19 May 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Light plane carrying five disappears in Tuamotu in French Polynesia". RNZ. 24 May 2002. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  3. ^ "French Polynesia election to go ahead despite candidates missing in possible crash". RNZ. 30 May 2002. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  4. ^ "French Polynesia's Fetia Api on own electoral list". RNZ. 9 April 2004. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Ruling French Polynesia Party has lost its absolute majority in assembly elections". RNZ. 25 May 2004. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Fetia Api holds balance of power after French Polynesia poll". RNZ. 25 May 2004. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  7. ^ "HISTORIC WIN FOR OPPOSITION IN FRENCH POLYNESIA". Pacific Islands Report. 4 June 2004. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  8. ^ "SEVEN PARTIES CROWD RACE FOR TAHITI ASSEMBLY". Pacific Islands Report. 12 January 2005. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  9. ^ "ALTERNATIVE PARTY WAITS ON TAHITI CHESS BOARD". Pacific Islands Report. 3 February 2005. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Oscar Temaru names 16 ministers in new French Polynesian government". RNZ. 8 March 2005. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  11. ^ "French Polynesian Assembly elects new Assembly President". RNZ. 14 April 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  12. ^ "FLOSSE ALLY OUT AS FRENCH POLYNESIA SPEAKER". Pacific Islands Report. 13 April 2009. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.

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