New President
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For Ut-Udr
• Mr. Gaston Flosse, mayor of Pirae and a member of French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly, has been elected president of the Union Tahitienne-UDR, the strongest of French Polynesia’s minority political parties. He re places a prominent local business man, Mr. Rudy Bambridge, one of the founders of the party in the 19505. The UT-UDR, an alliance with the political party of President Pompidou, is strongly opposed to internal self-govern ment for French Polynesia, but wants greater responsibility for the territory’s elected representatives and the “oceanisation” of the pub lic service. In an interview after his election as president. Mr.
Flosse said his immediate aims were to rejuvenate the party (which has lost ground in recent elections) and to get other minor ity parties to join in.