GASTON Flosse, the 81-year-old veteran of French Polynesian politics, topped the polls in the first round of a vote that will determine who next governs the Pacific paradise.
The French territory, which enjoys a high degree of autonomy, has seen 13 different governments rule in quick succession since 2004 when pro-independence candidate Oscar Temaru first came to power.
Flosse's party Tahoeraa Huiraatira won 40.2 per cent of the votes in an election that took place on Sunday and aims to select 57 representatives in the Assembly of French Polynesia, who will in turn pick the president.
UPLD, the party of incumbent Temaru, won 24 per cent of the votes, and Teva Rohfritsch, another candidate, got just under 20 per cent. All three will go forward to the second round planned for May 5.
Temaru has been president five times since 2004, and Flosse twice.
The victory of Flosse, an old friend of former French president Jacques Chirac, is a significant defeat for Temaru, who is seen as paying for the territory's dramatic economic crisis.
Unemployment in the territory, which has a population of 270,000, is estimated to be around 20 to 30 per cent, and a fifth of the population lives under the poverty line.
Many voters are also angry with Temaru for trying to register Polynesia on the United Nations' list of Non-Self-Governing Territories - a list of countries that the international body considers as colonised.
Flosse - who ruled French Polynesia for 13 years until 2004 - is not without his own set of problems, having been charged recently in corruption cases.
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