David Vergé (born 10 January 1972) is a

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politician. He represented Wallis and Futuna in the

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from 2012 to 2013 and was president of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna from 2017 to 2019. Vergé was born in

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and is a businessman. He was first elected to the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna in the constituency of Hahake in the 2012 Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election. He was elected to the French National Assembly in the second round of the

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in the constituency of

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with 41.6% of the votes cast, with the support of the Rassemblement pour Wallis-et-Futuna (RPWF), the local federation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) led by former MP Victor Brial. In the National Assembly, he sat first as an independent, then as an affiliate of the socialist group (despite the support that the UMP had given him when he was elected in June 2012). He was a member of the Sustainable Development and Regional Planning Commission. On 25 January 2013 his election was annulled by the Constitutional Council, which declared him ineligible for a period of one year. The candidate supported by the UMP,

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, participated. He was re-elected to the Territorial Assembly in the 2017 elections, and was elected President of the Assembly on 4 April 2017. He was re-elected as assembly president on 27 November 2017. In the first round of the

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he supported

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, who obtained 28.5% of the vote in Wallis and Futuna, against 20% nationally. He was re-elected assembly president in November 2018. he did not stand for re-election in 2019, surrendering the position to Atoloto Kolokilagi. He stood for the

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in the

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, coming fourth in the first round with 18% of the vote. He withdrew his candidacy in the second round.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vergé, david Living people 1972 births Members of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna Members of Parliament for Wallis and Futuna Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic