| Office8: | Mayor of Teva I Uta |
| Term Start8: | 2008 |
| Term End8: | 31 March 2014 |
| Successor8: | Tearii Alpha |
| Constituency Am10: | Windward Isles 2 |
| Assembly10: | French Polynesian |
| Term Start10: | 29 January 2008 |
| Term Start11: | 6 May 2001 |
| Term End11: | 22 May 2004 |
| Birth Date: | 1964[1] |
| Party: | Union For Democracy Tavini Huiraatira |
Valentina Hina Cross (born 1964) is a French Polynesian politician and Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia. From 2008 to 2014 she served as mayor of Teva I Uta. She is a member of Tavini Huiraatira. She is the daughter of former Assembly president Milou Ebb.[2]
She was elected mayor of Teva I Uta in 2008.[1] She lost the mayoralty in the 2014 municipal elections.[3]
Cross first served in the Assembly of French Polynesia from 2001 to 2004.[1] She was re-elected at the 2008 French Polynesian legislative election,[1] and again on the Union For Democracy (UPLD) list at the 2013 election.[4] In May 2016 she was charged with defamation by then-Vice president Nuihau Laurey over comments made during a debate about electricity supply.[5] In October 2017 she was convicted and fined US$1000 and ordered to pay damages of US$1000 for alleging that Laurey showed favourtism towards power company EDT.[6] [7] The verdict was overturned on appeal in August 2020.[8]
She was the Tavini candidate for French Polynesia's 2nd constituency in the 2017 French legislative election,[9] but lost to Nicole Sanquer. In January 2018 she spoke out against a proposal from the French Polynesian government for The Seasteading Institute to establish an autonomous floating city in the Atimaono lagoon off Tahiti.[10] Tourism Minister Jean-Christophe Bouissou denied that there had been any agreement.[11] The government later admitted that it had signed an agreement, but that it had no legal effect and had expired.[12]
Cross was re-elected as a Tavini candidate in the 2018 election.[13]