A French Polynesian assembly member has launched an official complaint of inciting racial hatred against an assembly vice-president, Hiro Tefaarere.
Sandra Levy-Agami lodged her complaint with the public prosecutor and the French anti-discrimination agency.
Her action follows a letter by Mr Tefaarere to the president, Oscar Temaru, urging him to purge the administration of non-Polynesians.
She says the economic crisis should be tackled together, without consideration to ethnicity.
