Lana Tetuanui

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Lana Tetuanui
Senator for French Polynesia
Assumed office
3 May 2015
Preceded byTeura Iriti
1st Vice President of the
Assembly of French Polynesia
In office
18 September 2014 – 21 September 2017
Personal details
Born
Lana Hunter

(1970-02-23) February 23, 1970 (age 54)
Uturoa, French Polynesia
NationalityFrench
Political partyTapura Huiraatira (since 2016)
Other political
affiliations
Tahoeraa Huiraatira (until 2015)
Domestic partnerCyril Tetuanui
OccupationHostess

Lana Tetuanui (née Hunter, 23 February 1970) is a French politician who has served as a Senator for French Polynesia since 2015. A member of Tapura Huiraatira, she has been elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia since 2001.

Career

Tetuanui was born in Uturoa, on the island of Raiatea. Her husband Cyril Tetuanui has been Mayor of Tumaraa since the 2008 municipal election.

In 2001, she was elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia for the Leeward Islands on the list led by Oscar Temaru. She became an ally of Gaston Flosse, serving as a cabinet minister from 2008 to 2011. A member of Tahoeraa Huiraatira, she became 1st Vice President of the Assembly in 2014, working with Édouard Fritch, elected President of French Polynesia that year. In 2015, she was elected to the Senate alongside Nuihau Laurey, against the candidates presented by Flosse. She was expelled from her party, founding Tapura Huiraatira in 2016, which would go on to win a majority in the 2018 legislative election.[1]

In September 2020 she was reelected to the Senate alongside fellow Tapura Huiraatira candidate Teva Rohfritsch.[2]

She was re-elected to the Assembly in the 2023 election.[3]

References

  1. ^ "TROMBINOSCOPE DES REPRÉSENTANTS" (in French). 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Tapura retains Tahiti's two seats in French Senate". RNZ. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  3. ^ "La nouvelle composition de l'assemblée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.