Frédéric Riveta | |
Office3: | Minister of Agriculture and Island Development |
President3: | Édouard Fritch |
Term Start3: | 16 September 2014 |
Term End3: | 8 October 2015 |
Predecessor3: | Thomas Moutame |
Successor3: | Édouard Fritch |
Office9: | Mayor of Rurutu |
Term Start9: | 1995 |
Constituency Am10: | Austral Islands |
Assembly10: | French Polynesian |
Term Start10: | 1996 |
Birth Date: | 19 July 1954 |
Birth Place: | Rurutu, French Polynesia |
Party: | Tahoera'a Huiraatira Tapura Huiraatira |
Frédéric Riveta (born 19 July 1954) is a French Polynesian politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of Tapura Huiraatira.
Riveta has been mayor of Rurutu since 1995.[1] He was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia in the 1996 French Polynesian legislative election. He served as a Minister several times in the Flosse, Tong Sang and Temaru governments, holding the positions of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Economy.[2]
On 1 March 2011 he was sacked from the government of Gaston Tong Sang for failing to support the budget.[3] He was replaced as a Minister by Louis Frébault.[4] He was re-elected to the Assembly at the 2013 election and elected third vice-president.[5] In September 2014 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Island Development in the government of Édouard Fritch.[6] In October 2015 he resigned from the executive and returned to the ranks of the Assembly to strengthen Fritch's majority, his substitute being a supporter of Gaston Flosse.[7] [8]
During the founding congress of the Tapura Huiraatira in 2016 he was elected one of the party's vice-presidents.[9]
He was re-elected to the Assembly at the 2018 election.[10] In 2020 he was re-elected for a fifth term as Mayor of Rurutu.[1] He was re-elected to the Assembly in the 2023 election.[11]