Tahoera'a Huiraatira
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'''Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira''' (''Popular Rally'') is a [[List of political parties in French Polynesia|political party in French Polynesia]].
At the last [[legislative]] [[Elections in French Polynesia|elections]] on [[May 23]] [[2004]], and [[by-election]]s on [[February 13]] [[2005]], the party won 27 out of 57 seats.
Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira is the large conservative pro-autonomy party and anti-independence-party on [[French Polynesia]] and was founded by [[Gaston Flosse]], who supports French Polynesia's current autonomy arrangement with [[France]] and who led Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira for over 20 years.
[[Gaston Tong Sang]] was the party's presidential candidate in the election of March 2005, but was defeated by [[Oscar Temaru]] by 29 votes to 26. On [[26 December]] [[2006]], Tong Sang was elected President of French Polynesia. He fell to a no-confidence vote on [[31 August]] [[2007]], and Temaru was elected again on [[14 September]] [[2007]]. Tong Sang then split from his former party to found a new party called [[O Porinetia To Tatou Ai'a]].
The party is backed by most French settlers in French Polynesia.
The party elected two deputies to the [[French National Assembly]] in 2007.
== See also ==
* [[List of political parties in French Polynesia]]
* [[Elections in French Polynesia]]
* [[Assembly of French Polynesia]]
* [[Politics of French Polynesia]]
==External Website==
[http://tahoeraahuiraatira.pf/ Official Website]
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[[Category:Political parties in French Polynesia]]
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