Philip Schyle was elected the Foreign Minister for the NC, and Fetia Api helped with public financial contributions.
[3][5] On 24 May 2002 a light plane carrying party leader Boris Léontieff, officials of Lucien Kimitete and Arsen Tuairau, and substitute candidate Ferfine Besseyre, disappeared on a flight to Makemo in the Tuamotus.
[8][9] The party was also part of the Tapura Amui No Te Faatereraa Manahune – Tuhaa Pae coalition during this election for the seats on the Austral Islands, as well as part of the Tapura Amui no Raromatai coalition for the Leeward Islands.
Following the 2004 elections, the party held the balance of power,[10] and sided with pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru.
[17] In 2012, Philip Schyle and so the Fetia Api party become members of the short lived Rassemblement pour une Alternative Progressiste (RAP) coalition.