Valentina Cross

Valentina Hina Cross (born 1964) is a French Polynesian politician and Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia. From 2008 to 2014 she served as mayor of Teva I Uta. She is a member of Tavini Huiraatira.

Valentina Cross
Mayor of Teva I Uta
In office
2008 – 31 March 2014
Succeeded byTearii Alpha
Member of the French Polynesian Assembly
for Windward Isles 2
Assumed office
29 January 2008
In office
6 May 2001 – 22 May 2004
Personal details
Born1964[1]
Political partyUnion For Democracy
Tavini Huiraatira

She was elected mayor of Teva I Uta in 2008.[1] She lost the mayoralty in the 2014 municipal elections.[2]

Cross first served in the Assembly of French Polynesia from 2001 to 2004.[1] She was re-elected at the 2008 French Polynesian legislative election,[1] and again on the Union For Democracy (UPLD) list at the 2013 election.[3] In May 2016 she was charged with defamation by then-Vice president Nuihau Laurey over comments made during a debate about electricity supply.[4] In October 2017 she was convicted and fined US$1000 and ordered to pay damages of US$1000 for alleging that Laurey showed favourtism towards power company EDT.[5][6] The verdict was overturned on appeal in August 2020.[7]

She was the Tavini candidate for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency in the 2017 French legislative election,[8] but lost to Nicole Sanquer. In January 2018 she spoke out against a proposal from the French Polynesian government for The Seasteading Institute to establish an autonomous floating city in the Atimaono lagoon off Tahiti.[9] Tourism Minister Jean-Christophe Bouissou denied that there had been any agreement.[10] The government later admitted that it had signed an agreement, but that it had no legal effect and had expired.[11]

Cross was re-elected as a Tavini candidate in the 2018 election.[12]

References
  1. "Valentina CROSS". Assemblée de la Polynésie française. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  2. "Pas de vague orange en Polynésie où de nombreux maires sortants sont réélus" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  3. "La composition de la nouvelle Assemblée de Polynésie" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 5 May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013.
  4. "Polémique EDT : Nuihau Laurey attaque Valentina Cross pour diffamation". Tahiti Infos. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  5. "Tahiti politician fined for defamation". RNZ. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  6. "Correctionnel : Valentina Cross condamné pour « diffamation »" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  7. "Tina Cross définitivement relaxée face à Nuihau Laurey" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  8. "Tuheiava/Cross/Brotherson représenteront le Tavini Huiraatira aux Législatives" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  9. "Tahiti voice against floating island project". RNZ. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  10. "Iles flottantes : "il n'y a aucun accord de passé sur aucun projet", assure Bouissou" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  11. "French Polynesia sinks floating island project". RNZ. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  12. "Territoriales 2018 : Le nouveau visage de l'Assemblée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
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