French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse won't be able to make a political comeback next month.
Being banned twice from holding office because of corruption convictions, the veteran leader of the Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party went to the highest court of France in the hope of being cleared for the territorial elections.
But the verdict in Paris was the same as from the judges in Tahiti, meaning his ineligibility still stands.
Don Wiseman asked Walter Zweifel what Flosse's lawyers tried to achieve.
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Gaston Flosse Photo: AFP