Tong Sang wins 27 of the 57 seats in French Polynesia's legislative assembly
www.chinaview.cn 2008-02-12 09:09:17   Print

    WELLINGTON, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Former French Polynesia President Gaston Tong Sang's party, the To Tatou Ai'a, has won 27 of the 57 seats in Sunday's legislative assembly elections of the French Pacific territory, unofficial results showed on Tuesday.

    The other two major parties in French Polynesia, former President and long-time ruler Gaston Flosse's pro-French Tahoeraa Huiraatira and pro-independence Oscar Temaru's Union for Democracy (UPLD), will now be represented in a lesser proportion, with respectively 20 and 10 MPs in the next legislative assembly, the Pacnews, a Suva-based regional news agency reported on Tuesday.

    The legislative assembly will hold its inaugural meeting on Feb.21 to elect its speaker.

    After the speaker's election, the parliament has 14 days to reconvene and elect a president for the French Pacific territory.

    French Polynesia's 177,000 registered voters cast their vote on Sunday.

Editor: Wang Hongjiang
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