Nicole Sanquer

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Nicole Sanquer
File:Nicole Sanquer.JPG
Sanquer in 2014
Member of the National Assembly
for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 July 2024
Preceded bySteve Chailloux
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byJonas Tahuaitu
Succeeded bySteve Chailloux
Minister of Education and Higher Education, Youth and Sports
In office
16 September 2014 – 17 July 2017
PresidentEdouard Fritch
Preceded byMichel Leboucher
Succeeded byTea Frogier
Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 August 2017
ConstituencyWindward Islands
In office
7 May 2013 – 17 September 2014
ConstituencyWindward Islands
Personal details
BornNicole Sanquer
(1972-06-16) 16 June 1972 (age 53)
Papeete, French Polynesia, France
PartyA here ia Porinetia (2020–present)
Other political
affiliations		Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira (2013–2015)
Tāpura Huiraʻatira (2015–2020)
Alma materESSEC Business School

Nicole Sanquer-Fareata (born 16 June 1972) is a French Polynesian politician, and former Cabinet Minister. She was a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. Elected as a member of Tapura Huiraatira, she sits in the UDI and Independents group in the French Parliament.[1] In 2020 she formed the A here ia Porinetia party.

Early life

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Sanquer is the daughter of former French Polynesian education minister Nicolas Sanquer.[2] She was educated at the University of French Polynesia, the Paul Bocuse institute of culinary arts in Écully, and ESSEC Business School, graduating with a master's degree in international hotel management in collaboration with Cornell University in 1997.[3] After teaching at the hotel school in Tahiti, she worked as a civil servant in the protocol department of the president of French Polynesia, before serving as the head of the tourism department.[3] In 2001 she returned to teaching at the hotel school.[3] In November 2014 she was awarded the Ordre des Palmes académiques for services to national education.[3]

Political career

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Sanquer was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia in the 2013 French Polynesian legislative election as a representative for Tahoera'a Huiraatira.[2] She was appointed to the cabinet of Edouard Fritch in September 2014 as Minister of Education, becoming the youngest member of Cabinet.[2] In October 2015 she was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports.[4] While serving as a Minister her seat in the Assembly of French Polynesia was filled by Puta'i Taae.[5]

She was elected to the French National Assembly in the 2017 French legislative election.[6] Following the election she resigned as a Minister and returned to her seat in the French Polynesian Assembly.[5] She was re-elected to the territorial assembly in the 2018 election.

In December 2019 Sanquer declared that she would sit as an independent in the Assembly of French Polynesia.[7] Despite this, she was not expelled from the party.[8]

In August 2020 Sanquer founded A here ia Porinetia with former Tapura Huiraatira MPs Nuihau Laurey, Bernard Natua, Teura Tarahu-Atuahiva, and Félix Tokoragi, as well as Tahoera'a Huiraatira MP Vaitea Le Gayic who was "loaned" by Tahoera'a.[9] The group lost its parliamentary recognition in January 2021 after Le Gayic resigned and rejoined Tahoera'a,[10][11] leaving its members as independents.

In September 2021 she organised a protest against French Polynesia's vaccination law.[12] That month she also called for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in the territory.[13]

She ran again as a A here ia Porinetia candidate in the 2022 French legislative election,[14][15] but was eliminated in the first round.

She was re-elected to the Assembly in the 2023 election.[16]

References

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