French Polynesia's assembly deferred Friday's sitting because it was short of a quorum as some members preferred to follow the annual Hawaiki Nui Va'a outrigger race, Radio New Zealand International reported.
Fewer than half the members were in attendance. The assembly has been scheduled to vote on whether the veteran leader, Gaston Flosse, and his supporters have to pay back three million U.S. dollars in public funds which the French accounts office says were misspent under a system designed to deceive.
Flosse, who is also a member of the French senate, has accused both the French judiciary and the French state of staging a plot against him over the funds which were disbursed between 1996 and 2004.
Flosse said he has done no wrong and claims the French action against him was devised to protect French bureaucrats.
On Thursday, a small group demonstrated against any attempts by the politicians to declare financial abuse as being expenditure for the public good.
Source:Xinhua
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