Steve Chailloux | |
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Member of the French Polynesian Assembly for Windward Isles 2 | |
Assumed office 30 April 2023 | |
Member of the French National Assembly for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency | |
Assumed office 18 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Nicole Sanquer |
Personal details | |
Born | Papeete,French Polynesia |
Political party | Tavini Huiraatira New Ecologic and Social People's Union |
Steve Chailloux is a French Polynesian politician and member of the French National Assembly. He is a member of Tavini Huiraatira,and sits with the New Ecologic and Social People's Union in the National Assembly.
Chailloux was born in Papeete and grew up in Faaa and Papeari. [1] He studied at the University of French Polynesia before moving to the Sorbonne and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences,graduating in 2009. [1] He then moved to the University of Hawaiʻi,where he taught Reo Tahiti for ten years. [1] After returning to Tahiti in 2017,he taught Reo Tahiti to local students. [2]
Having previously supported autonomist parties,he joined Tavini Huiraatira in 2013. [1] He worked as a parliamentary attache to National Assembly member Moetai Brotherson. [2] In the 2020 French Polynesian municipal elections he was elected a town Councillor in Teva I Uta. [3]
He was elected to the French National Assembly in the 2022 French legislative election,defeating Tapura Huiraatira's Tepuaraurii Teriitahi. [4] [5]
He was elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia in the 2023 election. [6]
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