{{Short description|French Polynesian politician (born 1944)}} {{for|his uncle|Jacques Drollet}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jacqui Drollet | image = Jacqui Drollet (cropped).jpg | caption = Drollet in 2012 | office = President of the Assembly of French Polynesia | term_start = 14 April 2011 | term_end = 16 May 2013 | predecessor = Oscar Temaru | successor = Édouard Fritch | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | prime_minister2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = Vice-President of French Polynesia | president3 = Oscar Temaru | term_start3 = 3 March 2005 | term_end3 = 26 December 2006 | predecessor3 = Édouard Fritch | successor3 = Temauri Foster | office4 = | term_start4 = 14 June 2004 | term_end4 = 23 October 2004 | president4 = Oscar Temaru | predecessor4 = Édouard Fritch | successor4 = Édouard Fritch | office7 = | president7 = | term_start7 = | term_end7 = | predecessor7 = | successor7 = | office8 = | prime_minister8 = | term_start8 = | term_end8 = | predecessor8 = | successor8 = | office9 = Minister of Health, Environment, and Scientific Research | president9 = Alexandre Léontieff | term_start9 = 10 December 1987 | term_end9 = 4 April 1991 | predecessor9 = Lysis Lavigne | successor9 = Michel Buillard (Health) <br /> Pierre Dehors (environment) | constituency_AM10 = Windward Isles | assembly10 = French Polynesian | term_start10 = 13 February 2005 | term_end10 = 16 May 2018 | predecessor10 = | successor10 = | constituency_MP11 = | term_start11 = 12 May 1996 | term_end11 = 5 May 2001 | predecessor11 = | successor11 = | majority11 = | term_start12 = 23 May 1982 | term_end12 = 17 March 1991 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1944|11|22}} | birth_place = Papeete, French Polynesia | siblings = | occupation = | party = Ia Mana te Nunaa <br /> Tavini Huiraatira | yearsactive = }} '''Jacqui Drollet''' (born 22 November 1944) is a French Polynesian politician, independence campaigner, and former Cabinet Minister. He was Minister of Health from 1987 to 1991, and President of the Assembly of French Polynesia from 14 April 2011 to 16 May 2013.<ref name="assemblypresident1">{{cite web |url=http://www.assemblee.pf/representants/president |title=Le président |publisher=Assemblée de la Polynésie française |language=fr |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref>
Drollet was educated as a marine biologist at the University of Toulouse.<ref name=PIM1988>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-338243883/view?sectionId=nla.obj-341703919 |title=Mururoa Moves Shock Paris |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=59 |issue=9 |page=33 |date=1 September 1988 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In 1975 he founded ''Ia Mana te Nunaa'' ("Power to the People"), a radical pro-independence party opposed to nuclear testing.<ref name=CT1988/><ref name=PIM1982a>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340149534/view?sectionId=nla.obj-344554874 |title=Ia Mana Te Nunaa, a new political force in French Polynesia |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=53 |issue=8 |pages=21–23 |date=1 August 1982 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia in the 1982 French Polynesian legislative election, when ''Ia Mana'' won three seats.<ref name=AssemblyHistory>{{cite web |url=http://www.assemblee.pf/histoire?id=576 |title=Les élus de l'assemblée territoriale |publisher=Assemblée de la Polynésie française |language=fr |access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118207179 |title=Paradise Lost |work=Canberra Times |page=1 |date=22 February 1986 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In August 1982 he ran in a by-election for Deputy to the French National Assembly, coming third.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340174009/view?sectionId=nla.obj-344562631 |title=Flosse's Man Romps Home in Tahiti |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=53 |issue=10 |page=7 |date=1 October 1982 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was re-elected in 1986,<ref name=AssemblyHistory/> and when Alexandre Léontieff became president in 1987, was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Health, Environment, and Scientific Research.<ref name=AssemblyHistory/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-338212554/view?sectionId=nla.obj-341653742 |title=FRENCH POLYNESIA A New Order Takes Charge |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=8–10 |date=1 February 1988 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name=CT1988>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101986448 |title=Le bombe looms over Tahiti |work=Canberra Times |page=15 |date=4 June 1988 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> As Health Minister he organised a conference on the impact of French nuclear testing, and campaigned for the collection of cancer statistics so the health effects could be monitored.<ref name=PIM1988/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122103693 |title=Explosions in Paradise |work=Canberra Times |page=17 |date=28 April 1990 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He lost his seat in the Assembly in the 1991 election.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-342894423/view?sectionId=nla.obj-351887004 |title=Flosse in surprising comeback |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=61 |issue=4 |page=18 |date=1 April 1991 |access-date=7 February 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He was re-elected to the Assembly on the Tavini Huiraatira list in the 1996 election, but lost his seat again in 2001.<ref name=AssemblyHistory/> In June 2004 he was appointed vice-president in the government of Oscar Temaru.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/149162/new-french-polynesian-government-line-up-announced |title=New French Polynesian government line-up announced |publisher=RNZ |date=17 June 2004 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> He was replaced as vice-president in October 2004 when Temaru lost a confidence vote to Gaston Flosse.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/151371/still-unclear-whether-french-polynesian-mps-will-be-able-to-elect-a-new-president-tomorrow |title=Still unclear whether French Polynesian MPs will be able to elect a new President tomorrow |publisher=RNZ |date=25 October 2004 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> He was reappointed as vice-president when Temaru regained power in March 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/153788/new-french-polynesian-government-to-look-into-money-transfers-and-gip-force |title=New French Polynesian government to look into money transfers and GIP force |publisher=RNZ |date=10 March 2005 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> He surrendered the position as part of a coalition realignment in April 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/161548/french-polynesian-government-shake-up-restores-temaru's-majority |title=French Polynesian government shake-up restores Temaru's majority |publisher=RNZ |date=20 April 2006 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> He was later appointed telecommunications and culture minister in Temaru's 2007 government,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/172774/french-polynesia's-temaru-presents-new-government |title=French Polynesia's Temaru presents new government |publisher=RNZ |date=20 September 2007 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> and minister of tourism in Temaru's 2009 government.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/182073/french-polynesia's-newly-elected-president-finalises-his-cabinet |title=French Polynesia's newly-elected President finalises his Cabinet |publisher=RNZ |date=18 February 2009 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref>
While in opposition in 2010 he introduced and passed a bill in the Assembly limiting foreign investment in telecommunications in French Polynesia, effectively thwarting a plan by mobile phone company Digicel to enter the local market.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/192972/digicel's-plans-for-french-polynesia-put-on-hold-after-bill-passed-by-assembly |title=Digicel's plans for French Polynesia put on hold after bill passed by assembly |publisher=RNZ |date=6 October 2010 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/193008/french-polynesia-minister-appalled-at-digicel-vote |title=French Polynesia minister appalled at Digicel vote |publisher=RNZ |date=8 October 2010 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref>
In April 2011 he was elected President of the Assembly.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/196603/drollet-becomes-new-french-polynesia-assembly-president |title=Drollet becomes new French Polynesia assembly president |publisher=RNZ |date=15 April 2011 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> In February 2012 he was found to have publicly maligned two female opposition MPs and ordered to pay each of them US$2,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/202283/french-polynesia-speaker-fined-for-maligning-opposition-politicians |title=French Polynesia speaker fined for maligning opposition politicians |publisher=RNZ |date=1 February 2012 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> In March 2013 he established a regional grouping of Polynesian parliaments.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/210720/polynesia-parliamentary-group-formed-in-tahiti |title=Polynesia parliamentary group formed in Tahit |publisher=RNZ |date=8 March 2013 |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> In July 2014 when President Gaston Flosse was convicted of corruption and banned from public office he wrote an open letter to French President François Hollande urging him to apply the law and dismiss Flosse from the Presidency.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/251098/hollande-urged-to-apply-law-in-tahiti |title=Hollande urged to apply law in Tahiti |publisher=RNZ |date=31 July 2014 |access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref>
He retired from politics in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://outremers360.com/politique/polynesie-francaise-jacqui-drollet-met-fin-a-sa-carriere-politique |title=Polynésie Française: Jacqui Drollet met fin à sa carrière politique |publisher=Outremers 360 |language=fr |date=17 October 2017 |access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/polynesie/tahiti/hitiaa-o-tera/jacqui-drollet-passe-main-aux-jeunes-524653.html |title=Jacqui Drollet passe la main aux jeunes |publisher=FranceInfo |language=fr |date=22 October 2017 |access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref>
In January 1997 he was appointed a commander of the Order of Tahiti Nui.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.france-phaleristique.com/ordre_tahiti_nui_titulaires.htm |title=LISTE DES TITULAIRES |publisher= |date=21 July 2021 |access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref>
==Relatives== Drollet is the nephew of French Polynesian politician Jacques-Denis Drollet, and the cousin of Dag Drollet, who was killed by Christian Brando.<ref name=Brando>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-18-mn-169-story.html Marlon Brando’s Son Held in Fatal Shooting : Homicide: Boyfriend of Christian Brando’s half-sister is slain at the actor’s estate. Suspect had accused victim of physically abusing her.], by Eric Malnic and Scott Harris; at the Los Angeles Times; published May 18, 1990; retrieved April 20, 2025</ref>
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