13 Mar 2018

Complaint to be filed over Tahiti Assembly invasion

1:33 pm on 13 March 2018

The president of the French Polynesian Assembly says he will lay a complaint with the police over last week's intrusion into the assembly by striking demonstrators.

French Polynesia's assembly approves 2018 budget

Photo: French Polynesia presidency

Marcel Tuihani said he could not let the matter rest after members of the union umbrella group forced their way into the debating chamber and broke a barrier.

The demonstrators wanted the government to abandon its plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 as part of a reform package.

The French High Commissioner has condemned the incident.

Employer organisations have described the event as unacceptable and intolerable, saying it amounted to a denial of democracy.

In the face of the strike, the government subsequently dropped the reform plan.