Satini Manuella Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Satini Manuella
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office1:Minister of Health
Term Start1:10 April 2015
Term End1:9 September 2019
Primeminister1:Enele Sopoaga
Predecessor1:Taom Tanukale
Office2:Member of Parliament
Term Start2:19 September 2014
Term End2:9 September 2019
Predecessor2:Willy Telavi
Birth Date:21 August 1958
Birth Place:Tarawa, Kiribati
Party:Independent
Spouse:Ilaisita Manuella

Satini Tulaga Manuella is a Tuvaluan politician.

With a background in finance and education, he is, as of 2014, president of the Tuvalu National Private Sector Organisation.[1]

On 19 September 2014, he stood as a pro-government candidate for Parliament in a by-election in the Nanumea constituency. Campaigning on the theme of developing "a healthy working relationship between the education and private sectors", so that Tuvaluans could be "educated in areas that will help boost Tuvalu’s economy", he was elected with 65.2% of the vote, and sat as a backbencher in Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga's parliamentary majority.

On 10 April 2015 he was appointed the Minister of Health;[2] and served as the minister during the Sopoaga Ministry.

He was not re-elected in the 2019 general election.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.pina.com.fj/?p=pacnews&m=read&o=15016170145420fbde8236adc321c9 "New MP elected in Tuvalu"
  2. Web site: Fenui News. Cabinet of Tuvalu, 2015 . 10 April 2015. 10 April 2015.
  3. Web site: Jamie. Tahana. Tuvalu elections: large turnover for new parliament. Radio New Zealand. 10 September 2019. 10 September 2019.