Emeni Simete | |
Office8: | President of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna |
Term Start8: | 23 November 2005 |
Constituency Am10: | Mua District |
Assembly10: | Wallis and Futuna Territorial |
Term Start10: | 10 March 2002 |
Term End10: | 25 March 2012 |
Predecessor10: | 11 April 2007 |
Successor10: | Apeleto Likuvalu |
Constituency Am11: | Pesamino Taputai |
Birth Place: | Utufua, Wallis and Futuna |
Party: | Union for a Popular Movement |
Ermenegilde Simete is a Wallisian politician and former member of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna. He served as President of the Territorial Assembly from November 2005 to April 2007.
Simete is from Utufua.[1] He was elected President of the Territorial Assembly in November 2005.[2] He was replaced as president by Pesamino Taputai following the 2007 Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election,[3] but was elected president of the Assembly's permanent commission.[4] He stood for the French National Assembly in the 2007 French legislative election, but was eliminated in the first round.[4]
After leaving politics he worked as a deputy prosecutor in Nouméa,[5] before becoming head of Wallis and Futuna's Director of Catholic Education.[1]