Pierre Frogier (born 16 November 1950,

Nouméa Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French Sui generis collectivity, 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 i ...

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

) is a French politician, who was

President of the Government of New Caledonia The president of the Government of New Caledonia is a political position in the Government of New Caledonia formed in 1999, after the Nouméa Accord was signed in 1998. New Caledonia has a collegial government with 11 members elected by Congr ...

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

National Assembly of France The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral French Parliament under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (France), Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known ...

from 1996 to 2011. He served as

President of the Congress of New Caledonia This article lists the presidents of the Congress of New Caledonia since 1985. The President serves as the head, or speaker, of the Congress of New Caledonia The Congress of New Caledonia (), a "territorial congress" (''congrès territoria ...

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 (; until 2004 Rally for Caledonia in the Republic, ; from 2004 to 2014 Rally–UMP) is a conservative political party in New Caledonia. The Rally is a loyalist party, supportive of the French status of the region and opposed to the inde ...

, 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

from 2007 to 2009.

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