Harold Martin (politician)
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Harold Martin is a New Caledonia
n politician, President of the Government of New Caledonia
(from 7 August 2007 to 10 May 2009 and again from 3 March 2011) and, since May 22, 2009, President of the Congress of New Caledonia. Martin replaced Marie-Noëlle Thémereau
as the leader of the ruling Future Together
party after the party suffered an electoral setback to choose the territory’s two members of the French assembly.
Coming from one of the oldest families of European origin, Martin is descended from a nephew of James Paddon, the British adventurer widely credited as having been the first European settler on the island, before the French annexation in 1853.
Further, he directs an agricultural society. Thus, he has been president of the Council on the Regulation and Establishment of Agricultural Prices (ERPA) in 1991, 1993, and from 1994 to 1995.
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
n politician, President of the Government of New Caledonia
President of the Government of New Caledonia
This is the list of Presidents of the Government of New Caledonia since 1998, when the Nouméa Accord was signed. The President is often from the largest party in the Congress of New Caledonia, though the government itself is made up of cabinet ministers from all parties in Congress, allocated...
(from 7 August 2007 to 10 May 2009 and again from 3 March 2011) and, since May 22, 2009, President of the Congress of New Caledonia. Martin replaced Marie-Noëlle Thémereau
Marie-Noëlle Thémereau
Marie-Noëlle Thémereau is the former president of the government of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. She is a member of the loyalist Future Together party...
as the leader of the ruling Future Together
Future Together
The Future Together is a center-right political party in New Caledonia supporting the maintenance of political and administrative ties with France....
party after the party suffered an electoral setback to choose the territory’s two members of the French assembly.
Coming from one of the oldest families of European origin, Martin is descended from a nephew of James Paddon, the British adventurer widely credited as having been the first European settler on the island, before the French annexation in 1853.
Further, he directs an agricultural society. Thus, he has been president of the Council on the Regulation and Establishment of Agricultural Prices (ERPA) in 1991, 1993, and from 1994 to 1995.