Sylvain Jacques Brial (born 16 September 1964) is a
Wallisian
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politician and former member of the
French National Assembly
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.
Brial is from a prominent political family. His grandmother was
Aloisia Brial
Aloisia Brial (died 1972) was a queen of Uvea, ruling from 1953 until 1958.Guillaume Lachenal, Le médecin qui voulut être roi. Sur les traces d'une utopie coloniale, Editions du Seuil, 9 février 2017 (ISBN 978-2-02-114258-7 She was preceded b ...
, ''Lavelua'' (queen) of Uvéa from 1954 to 1958, and his father is politician Cyprien Brial, who served in the
Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna
The Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna (French: ''Assemblée Territoriale''; Wallisian and Futunan: ''Fono fakatelituale'') is the legislature of Wallis and Futuna. It consists of 20 members, elected for a five-year term by proportional ...
from 1967 to 1987. His brothers are former territorial councilor Julien Brial and former MP Victor Brial. His uncle Benjamin Brial was also a member of the National Assembly, while his cousin Gil Brial is involved in the politics of
New Caledonia
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. He works as a building contractor.
Brial first entered politics when he ran in the 2017 Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election, and was elected as a representative for Sigave. He subsequently contested the
2017 French legislative election
Legislative elections in France were held on 11 and 18 June 2017 (with different dates for voters overseas) to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by ...
, but was defeated in the first round by incumbent
Napole Polutele
Napole Polutélé (born 25 June 1965) is a French politician.
Early life
Born on Wallis,Counstitutional Council, which annulled the election.
During the resulting
by-election
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...
Brial stood as a candidate for Les Republicains, and promised the acquisition of an
ATR 42
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On 4 November 1981, the aircraft was launched with ATR, as a joint venture between French Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and ...
aircraft to serve Wallis and Futuna. He won the by-election in the first round, with 51.6% of the vote. In the National Assembly he sat with the
Liberties and Territories
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group.
In September 2019 he suffered a serious stroke during a trip by his parliamentary group to
La Rochelle
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which led to him being placed in an artificial coma. After several months of hospitalisation he began rehabilitation in
Paris
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and then
New Caledonia
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. In October 2020 he resigned from the Territorial Assembly due to non-attendance. He did not contest the
2022 French legislative election
Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election, which was held in A ...