Leneuoti Matusi Explained

Leneuoti Matusi
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office:Member of the Tuvaluan Parliament
for Nui (serving with Pelenike Isaia)
Term Start:10 September 2013
Term End:31 March 2015
Predecessor:Taom Tanukale
Successor:Mackenzie Kiritome
Puakena Boreham
Party:Independent

Leneuoti Matusi is a Tuvaluan politician and former civil servant[1] who was elected as an Independent MP for the Nui constituency in a 2013 by-election, having previously served as the Secretary of the Nui Falekaupule.[2]

Matusi gained 297 votes out of 778 to gain the seat from the former sitting member Taom Tanukale who polled just 160 votes after resigning from Parliament on 30 July 2013 following the constitutional crisis.[2] He will represent Nui alongside Pelenike Tekinene Isaia, who is the island's only female MP.[2]

A week after the by-election, Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga announced that Matusi had joined the government's side, helping to boost their members to nine.[3]

Matusi was not re-elected to parliament in the 2015 Tuvaluan general election.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Radio New Zealand International . Tuvalu voters toss out cabinet minister who forced a by-election. 11 September 2013. 21 September 2013.
  2. Web site: Islands Business from Radio Tuvalu. New MP elected in Tuvalu. 11 September 2013. 21 September 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140405053943/http://islandsbusiness.com/news/tuvalu/2822/new-mp-elected-in-tuvalu/. 5 April 2014. dmy-all.
  3. Web site: Radio New Zealand International . New Tuvalu Govt to release road map for first 100 days in power. 17 September 2013. 21 September 2013.
  4. Web site: Radio New Zealand . Election looks set to return Sopoaga as Tuvalu's PM. 2 April 2015. 2 April 2015.