(Oceania Flash)  22 October 2004: The Assembly of French Polynesia meets to elect President ("Le président de la Polynésie française"). Simple Majority required. Gaston Flosse was re-elected ("Le président de la Polynésie française") by a one-vote majority and sworn in immediately during a parliamentary session boycotted by caretaker President Oscar Temaru. The parliament elected Flosse with 29 of 57 votes; the 28 pro-independence members boycotted the vote. Antony Géros, the president of the Assembly of French Polynesia ("Le président de l'Assemblée de la Polynésie française"), did not participate in Friday’s session, and also described Flosse’s election Friday as an "election of the president of the Tahoeraa Huiraatira", which is a reference to Flosse’s pro-autonomy and anti-independence party. Geros said that Monday, October 25, is the only legitimate date for the parliament to elect a government president following the censure motion.(tahitipresse)  23 October 2004: a Council of State (French national supreme administrative court) judge rejected two petitions from Tahiti to suspend the October 9 censure motion that toppled French Polynesia President ("Le président de la Polynésie française") Oscar Temaru’s majority coalition government.(tahitipresse)  26 October 2004: Tensions remain high in French Polynesia as the Leadership remains in doubt. The Legislative Assembly failed to sit on Monday, October 25. Assembly Speaker ("Le président de l'Assemblée de la Polynésie française"), Antony Géros, failed to turn up and chair the sitting he himself had scheduled. Gaston Flosse, who was elected President ("Le président de la Polynésie française") by an assembly sitting on October 22, attempted to enter the Presidential palace on the weekend but was met by closed gates.(Oceania Flash)  15 November 2004: The Council of State, judging on a request from Gaston Flosse, cancels the May elections in the Windward Islands-circonscription (). (decision, communiqué, in French language), for the reason that the neutrality of election officials was not observed in one of the communes, which, given the small difference of vote counts, may have altered the electoral results.  13 February 2005: By-elections for the Assembly of French Polynesia are held in the Windward Islands-circumscription ().