Valentina Cross

Valentina Hina Cross (born 1964) is a French Polynesian politician and Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia. From 2008 to 2014 she served as mayor of Teva I Uta. She is a member of Tavini Huiraatira. She is the daughter of former Assembly president Milou Ebb.[2]

Valentina Cross
Mayor of Teva I Uta
In office
2008 – 31 March 2014
Succeeded byTearii Alpha
Member of the French Polynesian Assembly
for Windward Isles 2
Assumed office
29 January 2008
In office
6 May 2001 – 22 May 2004
Personal details
Born1964[1]
Political partyUnion For Democracy
Tavini Huiraatira

She was elected mayor of Teva I Uta in 2008.[1] She lost the mayoralty in the 2014 municipal elections.[3]

Cross first served in the Assembly of French Polynesia from 2001 to 2004.[1] She was re-elected at the 2008 French Polynesian legislative election,[1] and again on the Union For Democracy (UPLD) list at the 2013 election.[4] In May 2016 she was charged with defamation by then-Vice president Nuihau Laurey over comments made during a debate about electricity supply.[5] In October 2017 she was convicted and fined US$1000 and ordered to pay damages of US$1000 for alleging that Laurey showed favourtism towards power company EDT.[6][7] The verdict was overturned on appeal in August 2020.[8]

She was the Tavini candidate for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency in the 2017 French legislative election,[9] but lost to Nicole Sanquer. In January 2018 she spoke out against a proposal from the French Polynesian government for The Seasteading Institute to establish an autonomous floating city in the Atimaono lagoon off Tahiti.[10] Tourism Minister Jean-Christophe Bouissou denied that there had been any agreement.[11] The government later admitted that it had signed an agreement, but that it had no legal effect and had expired.[12]

Cross was re-elected as a Tavini candidate in the 2018 election.[13]

References
  1. "Valentina CROSS". Assemblée de la Polynésie française. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  2. "Teva i Uta : émotion et joie pour l'inauguration du collège "Tinomana Ebb"" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  3. "Pas de vague orange en Polynésie où de nombreux maires sortants sont réélus" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  4. "La composition de la nouvelle Assemblée de Polynésie" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 5 May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013.
  5. "Polémique EDT : Nuihau Laurey attaque Valentina Cross pour diffamation". Tahiti Infos. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  6. "Tahiti politician fined for defamation". RNZ. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  7. "Correctionnel : Valentina Cross condamné pour « diffamation »" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  8. "Tina Cross définitivement relaxée face à Nuihau Laurey" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  9. "Tuheiava/Cross/Brotherson représenteront le Tavini Huiraatira aux Législatives" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  10. "Tahiti voice against floating island project". RNZ. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  11. "Iles flottantes : "il n'y a aucun accord de passé sur aucun projet", assure Bouissou" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  12. "French Polynesia sinks floating island project". RNZ. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  13. "Territoriales 2018 : Le nouveau visage de l'Assemblée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
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