Emeni Simete

Ermenegilde Simete is a Wallisian politician and former member of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna. He served as President of the Territorial Assembly from November 2005 to April 2007.

Emeni Simete
President of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 November 2005
Member of the Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly for Mua District
In office 10 March 2002 – 25 March 2012
Preceded by	11 April 2007
Succeeded by	Apeleto Likuvalu
Assembly Member for Pesamino Taputai
Personal details
Born	Utufua, Wallis and Futuna
Political party	Union for a Popular Movement

Simete is from Utufua.^[1] He was elected President of the Territorial Assembly in November 2005.^[2] He was replaced as president by Pesamino Taputai following the 2007 Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election,^[3] but was elected president of the Assembly's permanent commission.^[4] He stood for the French National Assembly in the 2007 French legislative election, but was eliminated in the first round.^[4]

After leaving politics he worked as a deputy prosecutor in Nouméa,^[5] before becoming head of Wallis and Futuna's Director of Catholic Education.^[1]

References

1. "Emeni Simete : de la justice à la direction de l'enseignement catholique" (in French). France Info. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
2. "Speaker elected in Wallis and Futuna". RNZ. 25 November 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
3. "Wallis and Futuna chooses Taputai as assembly president". RNZ. 12 April 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
4. Angleviel, Frederic (2008). "Wallis and Futuna in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007". The Contemporary Pacific. 20 (1): 251–254. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
5. "Décret du 18 mars 2013 portant nomination d'un magistrat - M. SIMETE (Ermenegilde)" (in French). JORF. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2022.