Tavini Huiraatira

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Tavini Huiraatira
Tāvini Huiraʻatira nō te Ao Māʻohi
President Oscar Temaru
Vice President Moetai Brotherson
Founded1977 (FLP)
1986 (current)
Headquarters Faaa, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Ideology Polynesian independence
Progressivism
Political position Centre-left [1] to left-wing
National affiliation Democratic and Republican Left group and NUPES
Colours Blue, azure
National Assembly (French Polynesian seats)
3 / 3
Senate (French Polynesian seats)
0 / 2
Assembly of French Polynesia
8 / 57
Party flag
Flag of Tavini Huiraatira.svg
Website
www.tavinihuiraatira.com

Tavini Huiraatira (English: People's Servant / Serve the People) is a political party in French Polynesia that favours greater autonomy from its territorial ruler France.

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History

The party was founded in 1977 by Oscar Temaru under the name the Front for the Liberation of Polynesia (FLP). The party changed its name in 1983 to Tavini Huiraatira (People's Servant Party). In 1986, Tavini Huiraatira obtained 2 seats in the territorial assembly, 4 seats in 1991, 11 in 1996, and 13 in 2001.

At the legislative elections on May 23, 2004, and by-elections on February 13, 2005, the party was part of the Union for Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie), that won 27 out of 57 seats.

Oscar Temaru's coalition government program in 2004 included the gradual increase of the minimum wage to 150.000 CFP franc, work days that don't start before 9am, an improvement of social services, political decentralisation, educational reform, and a revision of the new autonomy statute after French Polynesia was declared a French Overseas Country ( pays d'outre-mer ) in March 2004.

In the 2017 French National Assembly election, Tavini Huiraatira took one of the three French Polynesians constituencies, while Tapura Huiraatira took the other two.

In the 2022 French National Assembly election the party won all three of the French Polynesian constituencies. [2]

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References

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  2. "Pro-independence candidates in Tahiti win seats in French National Assembly". RNZ. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.