Jacques Teuira

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| name = Jacques Teuira

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| order = 2nd President of French Polynesia

| vicepresident = Jacques Teheiura

| term_start = 12 February 1987

| term_end = 9 December 1987

| predecessor = Gaston Flosse

| successor = Alexandre Léontieff

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1933}}

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| death_date =

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| party = Tahoera'a Huiraatira

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Jacques "Jacky" Teuira (born 1933) is a French politician and was the President of French Polynesia from 12 February 1987 to 9 December 1987.{{cite web |url= http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Fr_Polynesia.html |title=French Polynesia |author=Ben Cahoon |year=2000 |access-date=2012-02-25 |work= WorldStatesman.org }}

Biography

He served as the President of the Assembly of French Polynesia from April 1983 to March 1987.[http://www.assemblee.pf/representants/president Le président - Assemblée de la Polynésie française]

Teuira's predecessor, Gaston Flosse, was the first President of French Polynesia, and the head of Teuira's political party, the pro-autonomy Tahoera'a Huiraatira.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-335010606/view?sectionId=nla.obj-338961791 |title=The rise and rise of French Polynesia’s Gaston Flosse |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=56 |issue=3 |page=55 |date=1 March 1985 |access-date=7 October 2021 |via=National Library of Australia}} In February 1987, Flosse resigned from the presidency in order to become the first, and only, French state secretary in charge of Pacific affairs. Flosse chose Jacky Teuira as his handpicked successor as President over his longtime protégé, Alexandre Léontieff.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-338105543/view?sectionId=nla.obj-341604210&partId=nla.obj-338134454#page/n27/mode/1up |title=Flosse’s promotion proves too Much |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=58 |issue=5 |page=28 |date=1 May 1987 |accessdate=2 February 2021 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite book |title=France and the South Pacific since 1940 |author= Robert Aldrich |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Honolulu |year=1993 |page=293}} Teuira was sworn in as President of French Polynesia on 12 February 1987.

Teuira's administration in French Polynesia would last less than a year. Léontieff responded to be passed over for the presidency by forming a majority coalition in the Assembly of French Polynesia with others politicians opposed to Flosse and Teuira. The move forced Teuira to resign as President of French Polynesia in December 1987.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-338212220/view?sectionId=nla.obj-356357503&partId=nla.obj-338215536#page/n24/mode/1up |title=Leontieff FP President |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=59 |issue=1 |page=25 |date=1 January 1988 |accessdate=2 February 2021 |via=National Library of Australia}}

References

{{Succession box

| title = President of French Polynesia

| before = Gaston Flosse

| after = Alexandre Léontieff

| years = 1987

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Category:1933 births

Category:Living people

Category:Presidents of French Polynesia

Category:Tahoera'a Huiraatira politicians

Category:Speakers of the Assembly of French Polynesia