Nicole Sanquer | |
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Sanquer in 2014 | |
Member of the National Assembly for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency | |
Assumed office 18 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Steve Chailloux |
In office 21 June 2017 –21 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Jonas Tahuaitu |
Succeeded by | Steve Chailloux |
Minister of Education and Higher Education,Youth and Sports | |
In office 16 September 2014 –17 July 2017 | |
President | Edouard Fritch |
Preceded by | Michel Leboucher |
Succeeded by | Tea Frogier |
Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia | |
Assumed office 17 August 2017 | |
Constituency | Windward Islands |
In office 7 May 2013 –17 September 2014 | |
Constituency | Windward Islands |
Personal details | |
Born | Nicole Sanquer 16 June 1972 Papeete,French Polynesia,France |
Political party | A here ia Porinetia (2020–present) |
Other political affiliations | Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira (2013–2015) Tāpura Huiraʻatira (2015–2020) |
Alma mater | ESSEC Business School |
Nicole Sanquer-Fareata (born 16 June 1972) is a French Polynesian politician,and former Cabinet Minister. She was a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. Elected as a member of Tapura Huiraatira,she sits in the UDI and Independents group in the French Parliament. [1] In 2020 she formed the A here ia Porinetia party.
Sanquer is the daughter of former French Polynesian education minister Nicolas Sanquer. [2] She was educated at the University of French Polynesia,the Paul Bocuse institute of culinary arts in Écully,and ESSEC Business School,graduating with a master's degree in international hotel management in collaboration with Cornell University in 1997. [3] After teaching at the hotel school in Tahiti,she worked as a civil servant in the protocol department of the president of French Polynesia,before serving as the head of the tourism department. [3] In 2001 she returned to teaching at the hotel school. [3] In November 2014 she was awarded the Ordre des Palmes académiques for services to national education. [3]
Sanquer was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia in the 2013 French Polynesian legislative election as a representative for Tahoera'a Huiraatira. [2] She was appointed to the cabinet of Edouard Fritch in September 2014 as Minister of Education,becoming the youngest member of Cabinet. [2] In October 2015 she was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports. [4] While serving as a Minister her seat in the Assembly of French Polynesia was filled by Puta'i Taae. [5]
She was elected to the French National Assembly in the 2017 French legislative election. [6] Following the election she resigned as a Minister and returned to her seat in the French Polynesian Assembly. [5] She was re-elected to the territorial assembly in the 2018 election.
In December 2019 Sanquer declared that she would sit as an independent in the Assembly of French Polynesia. [7] Despite this,she was not expelled from the party. [8]
In August 2020 Sanquer founded A here ia Porinetia with former Tapura Huiraatira MPs Nuihau Laurey,Bernard Natua,Teura Tarahu-Atuahiva,and Félix Tokoragi,as well as Tahoera'a Huiraatira MP Vaitea Le Gayic who was "loaned" by Tahoera'a. [9] The group lost its parliamentary recognition in January 2021 after Le Gayic resigned and rejoined Tahoera'a, [10] [11] leaving its members as independents.
In September 2021 she organised a protest against French Polynesia's vaccination law. [12] That month she also called for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in the territory. [13]
She ran again as a A here ia Porinetia candidate in the 2022 French legislative election, [14] [15] but was eliminated in the first round.
She was re-elected to the Assembly in the 2023 election. [16]