The French Polynesian assembly had its sitting adjourned this morning as the government struggles to pass a development project before President Gaston Tong Sang is to fly to Paris tonight.
The opposition, which had been boycotting the assembly for the past two weeks, called for the debate to be deferred until Monday invoking rules pertaining to the running of the assembly which allow for four days of examination of a project.
The government in turn has accused the opposition of trying to thwart the assembly's workings as it hopes to adopt the project which Mr Tong Sang then wants to have approved by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, next week.
The opposition leader, Gaston Flosse, has warned of legal action to challenge the process and says he will write to Mr Sarkozy, asking him not to sign the document.
Last week, the assembly didn't meet because the assembly president, Oscar Temaru, who is an opposition politician, didn't open the sitting as he noted that the government side was one member short of forming a quorum.
