Teura Iriti

Teura Iriti
Mayor of Arue
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 June 2020
Preceded byPhilip Schyle
Senator
for French Polynesia
In office
28 September 2014 – 6 February 2015
Preceded byGaston Flosse
Succeeded byLana Tetuanui
Member of the French Polynesian Assembly
for Windward Isles 1
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 April 2023
Member of the French Polynesian Assembly
for Windward Isles 2
In office
25 May 2004 – 30 April 2023
Personal details
Born (1965-01-07) 7 January 1965 (age 59)
Papeete, Tahiti
NationalityFrench
Political partyTahoera'a Huiraatira
Tāpura Huiraʻatira
ProfessionPolitician

Teura Iriti (born 7 January 1965) is a French Polynesian politician, member of the Assembly of French Polynesia, and former member of the Senate of France. Since June 2020 she has served as Mayor of Arue. Originally a member of Tahoera'a Huiraatira party, she is now a member of Tāpura Huiraʻatira.

She has been President of the Arue, French Polynesia since 2003. She was the head candidate of her party's senatorial party in September 2014, having chaired Tahoeraa Huiraatira's group at the Assembly of French Polynesia: she is elected Senator in the first round with 411 votes.[1] Her election was invalidated on 6 February 2015 by the Constitutional Council of France.[2]

She was re-elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia at the 2013 French Polynesian legislative election.[3]

Candidate in the 2017 legislative elections in the second constituency, Iriti came second in the first round on 3 June, thirteen points behind Nicole Sanquer, Tapura Huiraatira candidate.[4]

In June 2017 she was elected as the Tahoera'a's leader in the Assembly, following the resignation of Marcel Tuihani.[5][6] She was re-elected in the 2018 election, and was the Tahoera'a's candidate for President of the Assembly, losing to Gaston Tong Sang.[7]

In June 2020 she was elected mayor of Arue, defeating Philip Schyle.[8] The election was overturned in November 2021 due to illegal proxy voting, but she was re-elected in January 2022.[9]

In March 2022 the resignation of two MPs from the party resulted in the Tahoera'a no longer being recognised in the Assembly and Iriti became an unaligned MP.[10] In May 2022 she joined the Tāpura Huiraʻatira.[11] In the 2023 election she ran as a Tapura candidate, and was successfully elected after being placed first on the list of the Windward Isles 1 constituency, ahead of party president Édouard Fritch.[12][13]

  1. ^ Résultats des élections sénatoriales 2014 (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Décision n° 2014–4907 SEN du 6 février 2015 (in Spanish)
  3. ^ "Teura IRITI". Assemblée de la Polynésie française. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  4. ^ Législatives : les trois candidats Tapura présents au second tour (in French)
  5. ^ "Teura Iriti élue présidente déléguée du Tahoeraa Huiraatira" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Iriti gets top role in Tahiti's Tahoeraa". RNZ. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Tong Sang elected French Polynesia assembly president". RNZ. 19 May 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  8. ^ "French Polynesia completes second round of municipal elections". RNZ. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Teura Iriti triomphe à Arue" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Le groupe Tahoera'a implose et disparaît de l'assemblée". Tahiti Infos. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Teura Iriti annonce rejoindre le Tapura". Tahiti Infos. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  12. ^ "La liste du Tapura déposée et dévoilée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  13. ^ "La nouvelle composition de l'assemblée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.