Tahoera'a Huiraatira

Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira (French: Rassemblement populaire; English: Popular Rally) is a political party in French Polynesia.

Popular Rally Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira
President	Gaston Flosse
Founded	1977 (1977)
Split from	Rally for the Republic
Headquarters	Boîte postale 471, Papeete, Tahiti
Ideology	Gaullism (historical) Conservatism
Political position	Centre-right to Right-wing
National affiliation	Union of Democrats and Independents
International affiliation	None
Colours	Orange
National Assembly	0 / 577
Senate	2 / 348
Assembly of French Polynesia	9 / 57
Party flag
Website
www.tahoeraahuiraatira.pf
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On 23 May 2004, in the legislative elections and on 13 February 2005 in the by-elections, the party won 27 out of 57 seats.

Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira is a large, conservative, pro-autonomy party and anti-independence party on French Polynesia. It was founded by Gaston Flosse, who supports French Polynesia's current autonomy arrangement with France and who led Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira for over 20 years.

Gaston Tong Sang was the party's presidential candidate in the election of March 2005, but was defeated by Oscar Temaru by 29 votes to 26. On 26 December 2006, Tong Sang was elected President of French Polynesia. He fell to a no-confidence vote on 31 August 2007, and Temaru was elected again on 14 September 2007. Tong Sang then split from his former party to found a new party called O Porinetia To Tatou Ai'a.

The party is backed by most non-Polynesian settlers (Europeans and Asians) in French Polynesia; nonetheless the party must rely on Polynesian support to win elections, as they make up 70% of the territory's population.

The party elected two deputies to the French National Assembly in 2007.