| Nicole Sanquer | |
| Office: | Member of the National Assembly for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency |
| Term Start: | 18 July 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Steve Chailloux |
| Predecessor2: | Jonas Tahuaitu |
| Successor2: | Steve Chailloux |
| Office3: | Minister of Education and Higher Education, Youth and Sports |
| President3: | Edouard Fritch |
| Term Start3: | 16 September 2014 |
| Term End3: | 17 July 2017 |
| Predecessor3: | Michel Leboucher |
| Successor3: | Tea Frogier |
| Birth Date: | 16 June 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Papeete, French Polynesia, France |
| Party: | A here ia Porinetia (2020–present) |
| Alma Mater: | ESSEC Business School |
| Termstart1: | 21 June 2017 |
| Termend1: | 21 June 2022 |
| Office5: | Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia |
| Term Start5: | 17 August 2017 |
| Term Start6: | 7 May 2013 |
| Term End6: | 17 September 2014 |
| Constituency5: | Windward Islands |
| Constituency6: | Windward Islands |
| Otherparty: | Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira (2013–2015) Tāpura Huiraʻatira (2015–2020) |
| Birth Name: | Nicole Sanquer |
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.
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]
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]