Mass resignations within French Polynesia’s ruling party

Mass resignations within French Polynesia’s ruling party

Fourteen members of French Polynesia's ruling party Tavini Huiraatira have walked out.

Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia’s ruling party Tavini Huiraatira deepened during Easter weekend with a mass resignation from a group of 14 members. The resignation was tendered by a group of young members of the local Territorial Assembly. In their resignation letter, the members of the local parliament, writing to Tavini’s historic 81-year-old leader Oscar Temaru, insist that th…