First round this Sunday, April 16 of the territorial elections in French Polynesia. Some 209,000 voters are called upon to choose their 57 representatives in the Assembly from seven lists.
Only two of them are supported by parties located in the five archipelagos of the territory. If the separatists win the elections, they will tend to ask either for a referendum on self-determination or to begin the decolonization of Polynesia, says Sémir Al Wardi, political scientist and lecturer in political science.