Tefaarere worked for the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux, a police intelligence agency, before becoming general secretary of the A Tia I Mua union.
[2] While still on the payroll of the French Interior Ministry he organised blockades in Papeete against the government of Gaston Flosse.
[10] Géros was re-elected in the resulting by-election, and most Union for Democracy MPs supported him as their candidate for Speaker.
[18] Following the formation of Gaston Flosse's government, he was the To Tatou Aia candidate for Assembly President, but lost to Temaru, 27 votes to 28.
[18] He was subsequently made president of SETIL, the company in charge of French Polynesia's airports.
[25] In July 2015 he was convicted of attempted embezzlement of public funds while managing SETIL, and sentenced to three years imprisonment, with two suspended, and fined XPF1,000,000.