French Polynesian Autonomy Day parade in Papeete. Photo: French Polynesia President's Office
A community organisation in French Polynesia is pushing to have the date of Autonomy Day changed.
For 35 years, the territory has marked the day on 29 June, the day a treaty was signed with France to annex the kingdom of Tahiti in 1880.
Indigenous and pro-independence groups usually mark it as a day of mourning for the loss of independence.
The community organisation Nuna'a a ti'a held a meeting outside the assembly in Papeete asking the government to move autonomy day to November.