[2] He was elected to the French National Assembly in the second round of the 2012 French legislative election in the constituency of Wallis and Futuna with 41.6% of the votes cast, with the support of the Rassemblement pour Wallis-et-Futuna (RPWF), the local federation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) led by former MP Victor Brial.
In the National Assembly, he sat first as an independent, then as an affiliate of the socialist group (despite the support that the UMP had given him when he was elected in June 2012).
[1] On 25 January 2013 his election was annulled by the Constitutional Council, which declared him ineligible for a period of one year.
[3][4] The candidate supported by the UMP, Napole Polutele, succeeded him two months later, following a by- election in which his wife, Lauriane Vergé, participated.
[8][9] In the first round of the 2017 French presidential election he supported François Fillon, who obtained 28.5% of the vote in Wallis and Futuna, against 20% nationally.