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Polynesia: Gaston Flosse again sentenced to five years of ineligibility

2022-09-28T03:23:52.360Z


The Papeete Criminal Court on Tuesday, September 27 sentenced the former President of French Polynesia Gaston Flosse to a new sentence...


The Papeete Criminal Court sentenced the former President of French Polynesia Gaston Flosse to a new five-year ineligibility sentence on Tuesday, September 27, for forgery and improper registration on an electoral list in Papeete.

The sentence is accompanied by a provisional execution and will therefore not be suspended even if his lawyer has indicated that he will appeal.

At 91, Gaston Flosse must therefore give up the Polynesian territorial elections of 2023 in which he wanted to run.

In addition to his ineligibility, Gaston Flosse was sentenced to nine months in prison with probationary suspension of two years and a fine of 8,300 euros.

In 2019, he had registered on the electoral list of Papeete to stand for the municipal elections of 2020 in this commune, declaring that he rented an apartment of 15 square meters within the permanence of his political party.

The court ruled that the sublease was a forgery, signed by a man who had not been the manager of the building since 2014. This conviction does not prohibit him from presiding over his political party, the Amuitahira'a o te nuna'a Ma'ohi (Gathering of the Polynesian people).

Sentenced many times

Gaston Flosse has been convicted many times.

In 2014, a sentence of ineligibility after a case of fictitious jobs had forced him to give up power.

President of French Polynesia almost continuously from 1984 to 2004, then intermittently during the following decade, Gaston Flosse was also a deputy, senator, and secretary of state for South Pacific affairs, in the Chirac cohabitation government.

He has evolved several times in his political career: first opposed to the autonomy of French Polynesia, he was its most fervent supporter from the 1980s, supporting close relations with Paris, before advocating sovereignty these last years.

But it is now isolated between the separatist party of current president Edouard Fritch and the separatist party of ex-president Oscar Temaru.

Gaston Flosse no longer has a leading political figure at his side and has fallen out with his potential successors.

Source: lefigaro

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