Gil Brial (born 25 November 1973) is a politician from New Caledonia who is the leader of the Caledonian People's Movement.
Brial was born in New Caledonia in 1973 to a prominent political family.
He is of mixed race, maternal Caldoche (New Caledonians descended from French colonial settlers) descent and paternal Polynesian-Wallisian origin with his father's family having origins in Wallis and Futuna and Uvea.
[1] In 2009 he was elected to the New Caledonian Territorial Assembly as a member of The Rally but left the party in 2013 with its leader Gaël Yanno to form the Caledonian People's Movement.
[3][4] In June 2024, during the unrest, he was involved in the beating of a young off-duty Kanak policeman.