Political upheaval 'not over' for French Polynesia
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Analysts have warned that French Polynesia's new president may not be able to maintain stability in the French Pacific.
On Wednesday, the French Polynesian parliamentary assembly passed a motion of no-confidence in Gaston Flosse, and made Gaston Tong Sang president.
Our Pacific correspondent, Campbell Cooney, says Mr Tong Sang was able to gain the support of 29 of the 57 members of the French Territory's Assembly, and have his one time political ally, now bitter enemy, Gaston Flosse, thrown out of office.
It was the fourth time the presidency had changed hands in the past 18 months.
Tahiti Presse editor in chief, Thibault Marais, says there is no indication that Wednesay's no-confidence vote will spell the end of political upheaval in French Polynesia.
"Two things could happen: either in the days or weeks to come, some MPs will join Mr Tong Sang's majority and we'll have a much larger majority, where he could have maybe one, two or three seats to get 30 or 31 seats, maybe," he said.
"But on the other hand there may be another no confidence vote in a few weeks, or a few months by Mr Flosse or Mr Temaru to try to topple again Mr Tong Sang."
