Pierre Frogier (born 16 November 1950,

Nouméa Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and ...

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) is a French politician, who was

President of the Government of New Caledonia This article lists the presidents of the Government of New Caledonia since 1999, after the Nouméa Accord was signed in 1998. The President is often from the largest party in the Congress of New Caledonia, though the government itself is made u ...

from 2001 to 2004. He has been French senator for New Caledonia since 2011, and was member of the

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from 1996 to 2011. He served as President of the Congress of New Caledonia from 1995 to 1997. He was born in

. He was elected President of that collectivity by the territorial Congress ('' Congrès du territoire'') on 5 April 2001, reelected in November 2002 when the government collapsed following the resignation of a minister, and left office on 10 June 2004, when a new government was elected after his party, the anti-independence

The Rally–UMP The Rally (french: Le Rassemblement; until 2004 Rally for Caledonia in the Republic, french: Rassemblement pour une Calédonie dans la République; from 2004 to 2014 Rally–UMP) is a conservative political party in New Caledonia, strongly suppor ...

, lost parliamentary elections. When the new government collapsed, Frogier ran for president in elections two weeks later, on 24 June 2004, in which he was defeated, received 4 of the 11 votes in Congress. He was elected second time as President of the Congress of New Caledonia from 2007 to 2009.

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