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Patalione Kanimoa is a Wallisian politician from Wallis and Futuna,a French overseas collectivity in the South Pacific. He was President of the Territorial Assembly in the French government of the Wallis and Futuna. He was nominated by the French president Jacques Chirac on 18 January 2005.
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