| Thomas Moutame | |
| Office: | Mayor of Taputapuatea |
| Term Start: | 1997 |
| Predecessor: | Toni Hiro |
| Office2: | Minister of Agriculture and Island Development |
| Term Start2: | 17 May 2013 |
| Term End2: | 16 September 2014 |
| Successor2: | Frédéric Riveta |
| Office9: | Minister of Outer Islands Development |
| President9: | Oscar Temaru |
| Term Start9: | 18 February 2009 |
| Term End9: | 25 November 2009 |
| Constituency Am10: | Leeward Isles |
| Assembly10: | French Polynesian |
| Term Start10: | 7 May 2013 |
| Term Start11: | 23 May 2004 |
| Term End11: | 28 January 2008 |
| Term Start12: | 12 May 1996 |
| Term End12: | 5 May 2001 |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Party: | Tahoera'a Huiraatira Tapura Huiraatira |
Thomas Moutame is a French Polynesian politician and former Cabinet Minister. He has served as Mayor of Taputapuatea since 1997.[2] He is a member of Tapura Huiraatira.
Moutame is from Raiatea.[3] He was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia at the 1996 French Polynesian legislative election.[1] He lost his seat at the 2001 election, but was re-elected in 2004. He lost his seat again at the 2008 election.[1] In February 2009 he was appointed to the coalition cabinet of Oscar Temaru as Minister of Outer Islands Development.[4] He later worked as a technical advisor to the Ministry of Rural Economy.[3]
In 2007 while serving as Mayor of Taputapuatea he refused to marry a couple because one of them had had a sex change.[5] In March 2011 he was convicted of abuse of power and fined US$5000.[6] In September 2011 the Court of Appeal overturned an initial sentence of a year's ineligibility for office.[7]
Following the 2013 election he was appointed to the Cabinet of Gaston Flosse as Minister of Agriculture and Island Development.[8] After the fall of the Flosse government in September 2014 he returned to the Assembly.[9] In December 2015 he voted for Édouard Fritch's budget rather than abstain with the rest of his party.[10] He did the same in December 2016.[11]
In April 2017 he was one of 22 Tahoeraa politicians jointly ordered to repay US$2.1 million of public funds they had misused to advance their political party between 1996 and 2004.[12]
In February 2018 he left the Tahoeraa after failing to secure a high enough placing on the party list.[13] He subsequently ran as a Tapura Huiraatira in the 2018 election[14] and was elected.[15] In 2020 he was re-elected as Mayor of Taputapuatea for a fifth term.[2] [16]