David Vergé (born 10 January 1972) is a Wallisian politician. He represented Wallis and Futuna in the French National Assembly from 2012 to 2013 and was president of the
Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna
The Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna (French: ''Assemblée Territoriale''; Wallisian language, Wallisian and Futunan language, Futunan: ''Fono fakatelituale'') is the legislature of Wallis and Futuna. It consists of 20 members, elected ...
from 2017 to 2019.
Vergé was born in
La Fère
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Population
See also
* Communes of the Aisne department
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in
France
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and is a businessman. He was first elected to the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna in the constituency of Hahake in the 2012 Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election.
He was elected to the French National Assembly in the second round of the
2012 French legislative election
Legislative elections took place on 10 and 17 June 2012 (and on other dates for small numbers of voters outside metropolitan France) to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a little over a month after the Fr ...
in the constituency of
Wallis and Futuna
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with 41.6% of the votes cast, with the support of the Rassemblement pour Wallis-et-Futuna (RPWF), the local federation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) led by former MP Victor Brial. In the National Assembly, he sat first as an independent, then as an affiliate of the socialist group (despite the support that the UMP had given him when he was elected in June 2012). He was a member of the Sustainable Development and Regional Planning Commission. On 25 January 2013 his election was annulled by the Constitutional Council, which declared him ineligible for a period of one year. The candidate supported by the UMP,
Napole Polutele
Napole Polutélé (born 25 June 1965) is a French politician.
Early life
Born on Wallis,Lauriane Vergé, participated.
He was re-elected to the Territorial Assembly in the
2017 elections
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, and was elected President of the Assembly on 4 April 2017. He was re-elected as assembly president on 27 November 2017. In the first round of the
2017 French presidential election
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he supported
François Fillon
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, who obtained 28.5% of the vote in Wallis and Futuna, against 20% nationally.
He was re-elected assembly president in November 2018. he did not stand for re-election in 2019, surrendering the position to Atoloto Kolokilagi.
He stood for the
Senate of France
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in the
2020 French Senate election
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, coming fourth in the first round with 18% of the vote. He withdrew his candidacy in the second round.