Leiataualesa Taupau Mulipola Oliva | |
Constituency Mp6: | Aiga-ile-tai |
Parliament6: | Samoa |
Term Start6: | 31 March 2006 |
Term End6: | 4 March 2011 |
Predecessor6: | Leva'a Sauaso |
Successor6: | Ifopo Matia Filisi |
Party: | Samoan Democratic United Party Tautua Samoa Party Human Rights Protection Party |
Leiataualesa Taupau Mulipola Oliva (born 1974) is a Samoan politician and former member of the Samoan Parliament. When elected in 2006 he was Samoa's youngest MP.[1]
Oliva was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa as a Samoan Democratic United Party MP in the 2006 Samoan general election.[1] After the collapse of the SDUP he became a founding member of the Tautua Samoa Party, and in May 2009 was deemed to have resigned his seat by Speaker Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiʻataua.[2] He was reinstated by the Supreme Court in July 2009.[3] In September 2010 he asked to run as a Human Rights Protection Party candidate in the upcoming election.[4] He subsequently lost his seat in the 2011 election.
In July 2020 Oliva announced that he would contest Aiga-ile-tai in the April 2021 election as an HRPP candidate.[1] He was subsequently banished from a number of villages in the constituency for unstated reasons.[5]