Question 26944 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Sylvain Brial draws the attention of the Minister for Overseas Territories to the situation in the territory of the islands of Wallis and Futuna following the deliberations of the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal after the hearing on October 10, 2019. It appears from this deliberation, in the state of the procedure, that the territory would be required to pay more than 300,000,000 F CFP to the company Braoadband Pacifique in compensation for the facts whose origin dates back to 2009. They concern the authorization by the administrator of the islands of Wallis and Futuna granted to the said company to operate an electronic communications network in the territory. It results from the study of the file that the acts of the senior administrator were not carried out in accordance with the procedure and that precisely the Territorial Assembly was not consulted to authorize the administrator to take a position. This absence is considered by the councils of the Territorial Assembly as a fault of the State in the person of the senior administrator. The interests of the State and the Territory of Wallis and Futuna are clearly contradictory at this stage of the procedure. Today this contradiction is personified in the person of the prefect, both representative of the State and head of the territory. Legally, the contradictory interests of one and the other are defended by the same lawyer. He asks him how the Government wishes to manage this difficulty: how the senior administrator, head of the territory, will be able to position himself in the event that the assembly asks him to take action against the State and therefore its representative.

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