Steve Chailloux

Steve Chailloux
Member of the French Polynesian Assembly
for Windward Isles 2
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 April 2023
Member of the French National Assembly
for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 June 2022
Preceded byNicole Sanquer
Personal details
BornPapeete, French Polynesia
Political partyTavini 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]

  1. ^ a b c d "Législatives 2022 - Steve Chailloux : "Un peuple et ses langues"" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Législatives : Steve Chailloux, un professeur de tahitien à l'Assemblée nationale" (in French). TNTV News. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Législatives : "Il est temps de passer à l'alternance du pouvoir" estime Steve Chailloux" (in French). TNTV News. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Pro-independence candidates in Tahiti win seats in French National Assembly". RNZ. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Législatives : Steve Chailloux élu député de la deuxième circonscription" (in French). Radio1. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  6. ^ "La nouvelle composition de l'assemblée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.