Office: | Minister of Finance |
President: | Oscar Temaru |
Term Start: | 5 April 2011 |
Term End: | 5 September 2012 |
Successor: | Antony Géros |
Office2: | Minister of the Economy |
Term Start2: | 5 April 2011 |
Term End2: | 17 May 2013 |
President2: | Oscar Temaru |
Successor2: | Nuihau Laurey |
Office3: | Minister of Labour and Employment |
Term Start3: | 5 April 2011 |
Term End3: | 17 May 2013 |
Successor3: | Béatrice Chansin (Labour) Gaston Flosse (Employment) |
Term Start4: | 18 February 2009 |
Term End4: | 25 November 2009 |
Assembly10: | French Polynesian |
Term Start10: | 29 January 2008 |
Term End10: | 4 May 2013 |
Birth Date: | 27 October 1959 |
Birth Place: | Papeete, French Polynesia |
Party: | Tavini Huiraatira |
Pierre Frébault (born 27 October 1959) is a French Polynesian civil servant, politician, and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of Tavini Huiraatira.
Frébault served as leader of the Confederation of Polynesian Workers' Unions (CSTP-FO) before entering politics.[1] In 2005 he served as Labour Minister in the government of Oscar Temaru,[2] and later in the government of Gaston Tong Sang.[3]
In the 2007 French legislative election he was a Tavini candidate for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency,[4] but lost to Bruno Sandras.[5] He stood again as a candidate in the 2012 French legislative election.[6] [7]
He was elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia at the 2008 French Polynesian legislative election.[8] Following the election he was briefly appointed to the short-lived cabinet of Gaston Flosse, then returned to the Assembly after the Flosse government's collapse.[9] In February 2009 he was again appointed Minister of Labour and Employment in the coalition cabinet of Oscar Temaru.[10] When Temaru regained power in April 2011 he was appointed Minister for the Economy, Finance, Labor and Employment.[11] In September 2012 he was replaced as Finance Minister by Antony Géros, but retained his economy and labour portfolios.[12] He lost his seat in the Assembly in the 2013 election.[13]
In July 2017 he was appointed director of the Health and Social Regulation Agency (ARASS).[14] [15] In March 2022 he was dismissed as director after losing the confidence of Health Minister Jacques Raynal.[16] He was subsequently appointed "interministerial delegate for local employment" by the Council of Ministers.[17]