Mulipola Oliva Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Leiataualesa Mulipola Oliva to recontest AIga-ile-tai . Soli Wilson . Samoa Observer . 10 July 2020 . 13 January 2021.
  2. Web site: SAMOA MPS DISQUALIFIED, MUST FACE BY-ELECTION . Pacific Islands Report . 2 June 2009 . 13 January 2021.
  3. News: Samoa court reinstates nine MPs, cancels by-elections . 2 July 2009 . . 19 November 2020.
  4. Web site: MPs defect . Marieta Heidi Ilalio . Samoa Observer . 2010-09-27 . 2010-09-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110807054244/http://www.samoaobserver.ws/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27506&Itemid=62 . 7 August 2011.
  5. Web site: Candidate banishment issue divides Manono tai . Soli Wilson . Samoa Observer . 12 January 2021 . 13 January 2021.