Simplicio Lissant | |
Office9: | Mayor of Punaauia |
Term Start9: | 7 September 2018 |
Predecessor9: | Rony Tumahai |
Constituency Am11: | Windward Isles 3 |
Assembly11: | French Polynesian |
Term Start11: | 30 April 2023 |
Birth Date: | 1962[1] |
Party: | Tāpura Huiraʻatira |
Simplicio Lissant (born 1962) is a French Polynesian politician and Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia. He has served as Mayor of Punaauia since 2018. He is a member of Tāpura Huiraʻatira.
He was first elected to the municipal council of Punaauia in 2002.[2] He was elected deputy mayor in 2008, serving under Rony Tumahai. He ran in the 2013 French Polynesian legislative election as a candidate for A Tia Porinetia,[3] but was not elected. In September 2018 he was elected as Mayor of Punaauia following Tumahai's death.[4] He was re-elected unopposed as Mayor following the 2020 municipal elections in May 2020.[5]
He was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia as a Tāpura candidate in the 2023 French Polynesian legislative election.[6]