Luc Faatau | |
Office4: | Minister of Equipment and Transport |
President4: | Édouard Fritch |
Term Start4: | 13 January 2017 |
Term End4: | 24 May 2018 |
Predecessor4: | Albert Solia |
Successor4: | René Temeharo (Equipment) Jean-Christophe Bouissou (inter-island transport) |
Office8: | Minister of Lands |
President8: | Gaston Tong Sang |
Term Start8: | 2007 |
Term End8: | 13 September 2007 |
President9: | Gaston Flosse |
Term Start9: | 26 October 2004 |
Term End9: | 3 March 2005 |
Constituency Am10: | Windward Islands 3 |
Assembly10: | French Polynesian |
Term Start10: | 23 May 2018 |
Birth Date: | 1959[1] |
Death Place: | Tapura Huiraatira |
Luc Faatau (born 1959) is a French Polynesian politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Tapura Huiraatira.
Faatau is a former delegate of the Polynesian Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers.[2] He served as Minister of Lands in the 2004 cabinet of president Gaston Flosse,[3] and later under Gaston Tong Sang.[4] [5]
In January 2017 he was appointed to the cabinet of Édouard Fritch as Minister of Equipment and Transport.[4] [6] [7] He contested the 2018 French Polynesian legislative election as a candidate for the Tapura Huiraatira.[8] During the campaign he was accused of abusing Ministerial travel for the purposes of campaigning.[9] While not elected, he entered the Assembly of French Polynesia as a replacement for a government Minister after not being reappointed to Cabinet.[10] [11]