Lana Tetuanui | |
Office1: | 1st Vice President of the Assembly of French Polynesia |
Term Start1: | 18 September 2014 |
Term End1: | 21 September 2017 |
Office: | Senator for French Polynesia |
Term Start: | 3 May 2015 |
Predecessor: | Teura Iriti |
Birth Name: | Lana Hunter |
Birth Date: | 1970 2, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Uturoa, French Polynesia |
Nationality: | French |
Occupation: | Hostess |
Partner: | Cyril Tetuanui |
Lana Tetuanui (née Hunter, 23 February 1970) is a French politician who has served as a Senator for French Polynesia since 2015. A member of Tapura Huiraatira, she has been elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia since 2001.
Tetuanui was born in Uturoa, on the island of Raiatea. Her husband Cyril Tetuanui has been Mayor of Tumaraa since the 2008 municipal election.
In 2001, she was elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia for the Leeward Islands on the list led by Oscar Temaru. She became an ally of Gaston Flosse, serving as a cabinet minister from 2008 to 2011. A member of Tahoeraa Huiraatira, she became 1st Vice President of the Assembly in 2014, working with Édouard Fritch, elected President of French Polynesia that year. In 2015, she was elected to the Senate alongside Nuihau Laurey, against the candidates presented by Flosse. She was expelled from her party, founding Tapura Huiraatira in 2016, which would go on to win a majority in the 2018 legislative election.[1]
In September 2020 she was reelected to the Senate alongside fellow Tapura Huiraatira candidate Teva Rohfritsch.[2]
She was re-elected to the Assembly in the 2023 election.[3]