Tavini Huiraatira
Tavini Huiraatira is a political party in French Polynesia that favours greater autonomy from its territorial ruler France.History
The party was founded in 1977 by Oscar Temaru under the name the Front for the Liberation of Polynesia. The party changed its name in 1983 to Tavini Huiraatira.
In 1986, Tavini Huiraatira obtained 2 seats in the territorial assembly, 4 seats in 1991, 11 in 1996, and 13 in 2001.
At the legislative elections on May 23, 2004, and by-elections on February 13, 2005, the party was part of the Union for the Democracy, that won 27 out of 57 seats.
Oscar Temaru's coalition government program in 2004 included the gradual increase of the minimum wage to 150.000 CFP Fcfp, work days that don’t start before 9am, an improvement of social services, political decentralisation, educational reform, and a revision of the new autonomy statute after French Polynesia was declared a French Overseas Country in March 2004.
In the 2017 French National Assembly election, Tavini Huiraatira took one of the three French Polynesians constituencies, while Tapura Huiraatira took the other two.
