Tavini Huiraatira
Tavini Huiraatira Tāvini Huira'atira nō te Ao Mā'ohi | |
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President | Oscar Temaru |
Vice President | Moetai Brotherson |
Founded | 1977 (FLP) 1986 (current) |
Headquarters | Faaa, Tahiti, French Polynesia |
Ideology | French Polynesian independence Social democracy Democratic socialism Progressivism |
Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
National affiliation | Democratic and Republican Left group |
Colours | Blue, azure |
National Assembly | 1 / 577
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Senate | 0 / 348
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European Parliament | 0 / 74
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Assembly of French Polynesia | 8 / 57
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Tavini Huiraatira (English: People's Servant / Serve the People) is a political party in French Polynesia that favours greater autonomy from its territorial ruler France.
History[]
The party was founded in 1977 by Oscar Temaru under the name the Front for the Liberation of Polynesia (FLP). The party changed its name in 1983 to Tavini Huiraatira (People's Servant Party). In 1986, Tavini Huiraatira obtained 2 seats in the territorial assembly, 4 seats in 1991, 11 in 1996, and 13 in 2001.
At the legislative elections on May 23, 2004, and by-elections on February 13, 2005, the party was part of the Union for the Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie), that won 27 out of 57 seats.
Oscar Temaru's coalition government program in 2004 included the gradual increase of the minimum wage to 150.000 CFP franc, work days that don’t start before 9am, an improvement of social services, political decentralisation, educational reform, and a revision of the new autonomy statute after French Polynesia was declared a French Overseas Country (pays d'outre-mer) in March 2004.
In the 2017 French National Assembly election, Tavini Huiraatira took one of the three French Polynesians constituencies, while Tapura Huiraatira took the other two.
See also[]
- List of political parties in French Polynesia
- Elections in French Polynesia
- Assembly of French Polynesia
- Politics of French Polynesia
External links[]
- Political parties in French Polynesia
- Political parties established in 1977
- Pro-independence parties
- Separatism in France
- 1977 establishments in French Polynesia