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President of French Polynesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3051117 ↗
Source-derived summary

The president of French Polynesia (French: Président de la Polynésie française; Tahitian: Peretīteni o te Porīnetia Farāni) is the head of government of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. The office was first created in 1984. Moetai Brotherson has held the office since 2023.

List of presidents

Timeline

See also

Politics of French Polynesia

Kingdom of Tahiti

List of monarchs of Tahiti

List of colonial and departmental heads of French Polynesia

Vice-President of French Polynesia

External links

Ben Cahoon (2000). "French Polynesia". WorldStatesman.org. Retrieved 25 February 2012.

Craig, Robert D. Historical Dictionary of Polynesia. p. 104.

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“President of French Polynesia” enters the record as position. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what President, French and Polynesia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2023, 2000, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-09-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around President, French and Polynesia.
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“President of French Polynesia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, President, French and Polynesia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3051117. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2023, 2000 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “President of French Polynesia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.