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New Caledonian former president
Marie-Noelle Themereau
(born 1950) is a French New Caledonian politician who served as the former
president
of the government of
New Caledonia
, an overseas territory of
France
in the
Pacific Ocean
about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of
Australia
. She has been a member of the loyalist (i.e. anti-independence)
Future Together
party ("Avenir ensemble").
Biography
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Marie-Noelle Themereau is the daughter of Claude Billet, a native of Correze and veteran of Free France who arrived in New Caledonia in 1949 as a worker on the ore carriers of Societe Le Nickel (SLN) and general secretary from 1952 of the trade union of this company. He brought his family shortly after settling in and Marie-Noelle was brought up in the capital city of
Noumea
.
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Civil servant
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Holder of a master's degree in law specializing in labor and social security law from the
University of Bordeaux IV
, she first made a career in public administration. She thus stood out at the head of the Department of Studies, Legislation and Litigation, then that of the finances of the New Caledonia Territory from 1986 to 1988. She was mainly responsible for implementing the three Debre laws and developing vocational education.
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Separately, she then founded a real estate agency, the General Agency, in association with politician
Pierre Frogier
that they continue to manage together although they have become adversaries in politics.
Politician
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In 1989, she was elected to the congress of New Caledonia and to the South Province on the RPCR list, re-elected in 1995 and 1999. She held the position of second vice-president of the South Province from 1990 to 1999 and first vice-president president of the congress from 1999 to 2001, but in 2001 she resigned.
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In 2004, she led the list of her party "Avenir Ensemble" for the provincial elections.
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On 29 June 2004, Themereau was elected to the presidency of the fifth government of New Caledonia resulting from the
Noumea Accords
. As such she became head of the local government by the
Congress of New Caledonia
in 2004 after defeating the long-time ruling loyalist party
RPCR
(Rally for Caledonia in the Republic) and its chief
Jacques Lafleur
. Themereau resigned on July 24, 2007 after giving advance warning that she would do so.
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She was succeeded in the Congress by
Pascal Vittori
.
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