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	Gaston Flosse - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		On October 22, 2004, he was re-elected to the Presidency, and took office that day, although doubt was cast on the legitimacy of this election by Antony Géros, the Assembly President.
		On February 18, 2005, Flosse lost the presidency again in a parliamentary confidence vote, and on March 3, 2005, Temaru was elected president and Flosse left office.
		Flosse was able to rule with the support of different, centrist parties and groupings.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gaston_Flosse (383 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FRENCH POLYNESIA: End of an era for outgoing President Flosse? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flosse also served in the European Parliament in the mid-1980s, and was twice elected to the French National Assembly, in 1978 and again in 1993.
		Flosse has long been noted for his grandiose visions for French Polynesia, building a massive Presidential palace, creating local airlines and TV stations, even planning a tunnel under the lagoon in Tahiti to ease traffic congestion.
		Gaston Flosse is hoping to stop Assembly members who represent the outer islands from jumping ship to join with Oscar Temaru.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /pacbeat/stories/s1312716.htm (849 words)

	French Polynesia political crisis 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On October 8 the Gaston Flosse led opposition parties succeed in passing a censure motion against the Government provoking a political crisis.
		Gaston Flosse was re-elected by a one-vote majority and sworn in immediately during a parliamentary session boycotted by caretaker President Oscar Temaru.
		Gaston Flosse, who was elected President by an assembly sitting on 22 October, attempted to enter the Presidential palace on the weekend but was met by closed gates.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/French-Polynesia-political-crisis-2004.htm (867 words)

	Tahoeraa Huiraatira (Political party, French Polynesia)
		Gaston Flosse was born in 1934 in Rikitea on the island of Mangareva, part of the Gambier archipelago.
		In 1984, Flosse was a Deputy at the European Parliament, where he negotiated the first status of internal autonomy for French Polynesia; he was the same year the first elected President of the Polynesian Government (1984-1987).
		Flosse's opponents claim that the autonomy status is nothing but a tailor-made status aimed to maintain French Polynesia under the complete control of the French government through Gaston Flosse's personal power.
	www.fotw.net /flags/pf}tahh.html (589 words)

	French riot police dispatched to Tahiti following election upset
		Flosse, however, announced plans for further legal challenges to the election result, immediately filing to have the election of the parliamentary speaker nullified on the grounds that the distribution of officeholders within the new parliament did not reflect a true proportionality.
		Flosse’s worst setback occurred in the most populated Windward Islands of Tahiti—where the capital Pape’ete is located—and Moorea.
		Flosse dismissed the doctors, saying they had “no mandate by the people” and it was not their place “to question our health system”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/tahi-j21.shtml (2615 words)

	The Head Heeb: Another one bites the dust
		President Flosse's party, which has governed French Polynesia for 20 years, did better in the outer islands, and overall, has won 28 of the 57 seats, one short of a majority.
		Unless Flosse can win a recount or convince one of the independents to come over to his side, the next president of French Polynesia will be pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru.
		Gaston Flosse and his system" (a reading with which Tahitian blogger Maru Maru appears to agree - entry now edited - ed.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/025267.html (385 words)

	FR POLYNESIA: President Flosse takes battle to Paris : Melbourne Indymedia
		Gaston Flosse has the backing of Paris and his friend and political ally Jacques Chirac, while ousted President Oscar Temaru, the pro-independence leader, appears to have the people on his side.
		Flosse, on his part, as maintained he was still disputing the May general elections results, especially in the Windward Group constituency.
		Since long-time ruler Gaston Flosse was re-elected President of French Polynesia last weekend, Temaru has engaged in a hunger strike (which he calls “spiritual fasting”) with the support of his key supporters who are taking turns to support him at the occupied President’s headquarters.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/11/82322.php (4650 words)

	Peaceful Societies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gaston Flosse, president of French Polynesia since 1982, has long represented the business establishment and French interests in the islands, according to a recent story in Green Left Weekly.
		Tahitipresse reported on February 7 that Flosse supporters organized a political motorcade right through Faa’a, the heart of Temeru’s working-class stronghold, and during that event, a woman supporter of Flosse was assaulted.
		According to the Flosse party, their supporters were being subject to intimidation and verbal abuse by the Temaru side.
	www.peacefulsocieties.org /NAR/050217tahi.html (706 words)

	Periwork - Welcome / Bienvenue
		Gaston Flosse : the new president of French Polynesia.
		Gaston Flosse has been elected, on Friday the 22nd October, president of French Polynesia by the Assembly.
		In order to have all the chances on his side, Gaston Flosse also put oneself forward as a candidate for the meeting of Monday, while Temaru is demanding the suspension and cancellation of the motion of no confidence, in a court in Papeete.
	www.periwork.com /news/Newsflash/flosse.htm (411 words)

	The Contemporary Pacific - Political Reviews: French Polynesia, Spring 2005
		Flosse built himself a monumental presidential palace that houses "623 employees and courtiers" and invested public money in many grandiose projects in Tahiti and overseas, but Temaru's demand for a referendum on independence is necessarily tempered by a vision of ongoing French subsidies and compensation for the impact of nuclear testing.
		Flosse managed to get the statute changed twice, first in 1984 when he became president of the new government (and New Caledonia was in rebellion), and in 1996 after the last round of nuclear tests and anticolonial protests, when more nationalist symbolism was added (Von Strokirch 2001).
		Flosse had argued for a strong, stable executive that could run the country effectively and represent it abroad, much as in France; in 1958, de Gaulle had created a strong presidency with emergency powers when the Fifth French Republic replaced the weak, coalition-bound Fourth Republic.
	archives.pireport.org /archive/2005/february/tcp-fp.htm (2979 words)

	The Militant - March 28, 2005 -- Independence leader elected president again in French Polynesia, a colony of Paris in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flosse, a former long-term president, is an ally of French president Jacques Chirac and supports limited autonomy, rather than independence, from France.
		Flosse, however, was re-elected president October 23 in a rump meeting of the assembly.
		Flosse’s campaign focused on counterposing autonomy to independence, an argument that appeals to many in light of the millions of dollars of subsidies that French Polynesia receives from Paris.
	www.themilitant.com /2005/6912/691211.html (882 words)

	ABC News: French Polynesia Leader Voted Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The motion against Gaston Flosse, who has headed the assembly for much of the past generation, garnered 30 votes Friday in the 57-seat body.
		Flosse, who is close to French President Jacques Chirac, has held the presidency for 19 of the past 22 years and less than a year ago, he was the archipelago's uncontested and unrivaled leader.
		Under French law, Flosse, 73, remains in the post until a new regional president is selected by the assembly within the next 15 days.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=515549 (267 words)

	IPI - International Press Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Statement's made by President Flosse on 18 December may force the case to be re-opened as the President said he intends to prove that allegations over his involvement in the disappearance are false.
		President Flosse met with the journalists and finally agreed that the accreditation system "was a mistake" and that from that point on, all journalists would be allowed to attend his news conferences.
		Flosse said the fact both pro-independence and anti-independence radio stations are able to operate freely shows how free the news media are in French Polynesia, which has an increasing amount of self- government.
	www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Australasia/french_pol.htm (2719 words)

	Temaru regains French Polynesia presidency : Melbourne Indymedia
		Ministers of outgoing French Polynesia President Gaston Flosse spent three days inaugurating new facilities in remote parts of the Tuamotu Archipelago and the Gambier Islands, according to a communiqué issued Monday from the presidency.
		The Flosse government delegation visited nine atolls and islands, inaugurating new or improved airport runways, a rebuilt maritime wharf, a new post office, a new satellite hookup for mobile telephones, work on a new wharf, new housing for teachers and a new school courtyard.
		Flosse and members of his government "decided to inaugurate some runways in the Tuamotu (Archipelago) and I don’t think that is part of current business," Temaru said.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2005/03/88775.php (2162 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FRENCH POLYNESIA: Flosse won't run for Presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Flosse lost a no-confidence motion last weekend and is acting as caretaker until the Presidential vote on Monday, Tahiti time.
		It was President Flosse himself who first spoke of me as a candidate at the executive meeting of our party held last night, and it was decided by the executive members.
		When President Flosse announced that although my name had been put forward as the party's candidate, he said that everyone else was free to nominate themselves.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1311177.htm (663 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Controversial Flosse wins Tahiti elections
		Pro-French candidate Gaston Flosse recaptured Tahiti's presidency on Friday after the French government avoided becoming involved publicly in the two-week power struggle.
		In a bid to recover the office, Flosse's Popular Union party secured a no-confidence vote in the Territorial Assembly on Oct. 9, igniting popular demands for dissolution of the Assembly and calls for new territory-wide elections on behalf of Temaru.
		Flosse's win on Friday came after he failed to secure the two-thirds majority required to elect a new president in a hastily convened Assembly opposition vote on October 19.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqxNxqeidDgfOAxrPlwvSzwn0Aw9UCW (691 words)

	GIA: Newsroom: News Release Details
		The President of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse, was inducted into the Gemological Institute of America's League of Honor on Oct. 21, 1998, at a ceremony held in Tahiti by GIA's president William E. Boyajian, G.G., and GIA's chief development officer Jim Littman.
		The ceremony was held to recognize Flosse for a contribution made on behalf of Perles de Tahiti to GIA's Vision 2000 campaign-a campaign to help expand GIA research and education.
		Littman then commented about the importance of Flosse's contribution: 'It is imperative to the success of the trade that GIA is upheld by contributions such as this to support its mission to strengthen the trade,' he said.
	www.gia.edu /newsroom/608/271/news_release_details.cfm (376 words)

	avaiki: Friday, June 25, 2004
		Former French Polynesia president Gaston Flosse has criticised what he says are plans to change the territory's flag, anthem and annual celebrations.
		Flosse says it is "paradoxical" that supporters of new president Oscar Temaru want to celebrate colonial statutes of 12 July rather than autonomy measures of 29 June.
		Flosse says Tahoeraa supporters are also annoyed by plans to change the anthem and drop recently introduced presidential awards called Tahiti Nui.
	avaiki.blogspot.com /2004_06_25_avaiki_archive.html (1062 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PAPEETE: French Polynesia's president Gaston Flosse is appealing a decision by the territory's Administrative Tribunal in a bid to keep pro-independence journalists out of government press conferences.
		Flosse was fined CPF 120,000 for banning Tefana journalists Annie Rousseau and Benjamin Hahe from press conferences held by any of his ministers or officials in the territorial government.
		Flosse disagrees with the tribunal's ruling and is appealing to the Appeal Court of the Administration Tribunal.
	www.sidsnet.org /pacific/usp/journ/nius/docs/mar99/1981.html (636 words)

	Pro-independence parties topple government following Tahiti by-election
		The by-election result was a decisive rebuff to the colonial authorities in Paris and to Flosse who was determined to maintain his grip on power after 20 years in office.
		Flosse’s manoeuvres had, at the very least, the tacit approval of the Chirac government in Paris, with the French embassy in Pape’ete declaring it would do whatever was required to “maintain stability”.
		Flosse no doubt assumed that under conditions of political crisis and with the overt support of the French state and local elites, the votes of minor parties and previously undecided electors would return to him.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/mar2005/tahi-m08.shtml (1175 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial /2004/12/05/
		By refusing to leave the presidential grounds, his adherents are making it exceedingly difficult for Gaston Flosse, head of the new government and the Tahoeraa Party, to exercise full authority.
		Flosse, up until the most recent election, was president of French Polynesia for nearly 20 years.
		Recent allegations that Flosse mismanaged public funds, padded government payrolls with fictitious employees and set up a plush hideaway on two remote atolls for entertaining mistresses have surfaced.
	starbulletin.com /2004/12/05/editorial/special2.html (917 words)

	FRENCH POLYNESIA: Flosse, Leontieff reconcile and work together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mr Flosse announced Mr Leontieff will be the director of the SAGEP company, a new mixed-investment company in charge of territorial planning.
		With a doctorate in economy, Mr Leontieff was Gaston Flosse's right-hand man in the 1980s.
		Mr Flosse said that it was high time to leave the past behind and to forget political quarrels.
	www.hellopacific.com /news/general/news/2001/09/23/23c.htm (271 words)

	Pro-independence camp calls vote of no confidence against Polynesian leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flosse, and that of the government which he leads.
		Mr Flosse can no longer claim an unspecified popular legitimacy and thus must immediately give up the administration of the affairs of the country," said a copy of the motion seen by AFP.
		Flosse, 73, a longstanding ally of President Jacques Chirac, has governed French Polynesia for 16 of the past 20 years and has established a well-honed political fiefdom.
	www.ttc.org /cgi-binloc/searchTTC.cgi?displayZop+22661 (423 words)

	The Head Heeb: Temaru weighs in
		More recent polls indicate that the number of undecided voters has shrunk to about 30 percent, with Flosse's Tahoeraa polling at 28.3 percent as compared to 23.8 percent for the UPLD and 19.3 percent for the Alliance for a New Democracy (whose leader, Nicole Bouteau, is the most popular politician in the country).
		The high number of undecided voters and Flosse's low personal popularity (he was lowest among national figures in the Dépêche de Tahiti poll) aren't good news for Tahoeraa.
		On the other hand, Flosse comes to the by-election with a major advantage; since 17 of the 20 MPs from the outer islands support him, he only needs to win a third of the vote to stay in power.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/027581.html (419 words)

	Radio Australia Tok Pisin: Gaston Flosse i kisim Oscar Temaru igo kot. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mr Flosse i sutim tok long Mr Temaru blong kisim nating wok blong president na blong usim nating ol gaman bildings.
		Stat long taim ol i makim ken Gaston Flosse long President blong French Polynesia las wik-end, Mr Temaru i stap iet long wanpela 'hunger strike' wantaim ol sapota blongen na blokim bilding blong President.
		You know that if somebody who takes a building or house and he's not allowed to must leave and let the people who have the legitimacy to take can and top enter the building.So we will not be surprised if we get that sort of answer from the court.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/tokpisin/news/s1231142.htm (177 words)

	TAHITI COURT MOVES FLOSSE SUITS TO PARIS - November 15, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Papeete court claims that the three cases are related to the case Temaru has presented to the Council of State challenging the Oct. 22 Tahiti Parliament’s election of Flosse as government president.
		In Flosse’s three cases, he calls for the expulsion of the Temaru supporters from the French Polynesia presidency and two other government offices located elsewhere in downtown Papeete.
		Flosse’s lawyer said he was delighted by the Papeete court’s decision to transfer the cases to France’s highest administrative court in Paris.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/November/11-15-01.htm (192 words)

	Untitled
		The government of President Gaston Flosse is today conducting a series of post mortems, after losing office at the weekend in a motion of no-confidence.
		Mr Flosse lost support within his own party by not keeping his promise to resign after failing to win a clear majority in the by-elections.
		Jean-Christophe Bouissou, a high ranking minister in the Flosse government, resigned in a protest at Mr Flosses's lack of commitment to his promises.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/15912/114381 (838 words)

	Discharge in Gaston Flosse's property case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The public prosecutor said during the first hearings that Mr Flosse did not reveal facts about a loan in Vanuatu and properties in France and French Polynesia.
		The case concerns 1996-1997 while Mr Flosse was both president of the government of French Polynesia and French Polynesia's representative in the French national assembly.
		Each member of the French national assembly has to make official statements about his or her properties at the beginning and at the end of every term of office.
	www.hellopacific.com /news/general/news/2001/10/26/26f.htm (121 words)

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