France: Secessionist Moitai Brothers is elected president of French Polynesia

Separatist Moitai Brothers was elected president of French Polynesia on Friday by representatives of the local assembly. He was elected by the 38 separatist members of the Assembly elected in regional elections held on 30 April.

In a regional assembly with 57 seats, where the separatists hold a strong majority, the delegates gave 16 votes to the outgoing autocrat president Eduard Fritsch and 3 votes to another autocrat candidate, Nicole Sanquier. Earlier in the day, they elected another separatist, Antony Geros, as the head of this organization.

The decolonization of this community has not yet been negotiated

In a speech without notes, Moitai Brothers pledged France’s “respect” while calling on people to “not be afraid of freedom,” which will “never be imposed” on Polynesians. Despite relisting French Polynesia on the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories to be decolonized in 2013, France has never wanted to engage in negotiations on the decolonization of the community.

In contrast to the calm attitude expressed by the Moitai brothers, the new assembly president, Anthony Geros, considered in his first speech that France had used its power to create and break the majority according to its interests. authorities” during periods of political instability, between 2004 and 2013. Anthony Geros, the founding leader of Tawini Huairatira, a close friend of Oscar Temaru, represents the extreme trend of the Polynesian Freedom Party, which wants quick independence.

In contrast, he said he believed a referendum on self-determination would take place “in 10 to 15 years” and estimated that it would “not be there in the next five years under good circumstances”. The majority of them had little to fear from anti-autonomy, the main question being the coexistence between these two lines, one of which would control the government and the other the assembly.

(AFP)Show comments