The Union for Democracy Party in French Polynesia has begun campaigning for the February by-election, denouncing the Gaston Flosse-led government as an illegitimate interim government formed as a result of a legal coup against the will of the people.
In a statement, it says because of the autonomy statute imposed by Mr Flosse and his backers in Paris, there is now a fake assembly in place that would be a farce were it not for what is French Polynesia's democracy.
It says the budget is now being debated by only a third of the assembly members, adding that the new government formed after the February by-election will judge its value.
The Party, which is led by the ousted president, Oscar Temaru, says it is fortunate that beyond the reason of the state, there is the reason of the people.
37 of the assembly's 57 seats are empty after the French supreme court annulled the result in the biggest electorate because of serious irregularities.
Of the 20 MPs left in the assembly, 17 belong to the Flosse-led Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party.
