Office11: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start11: | 2 June 2021 |
Primeminister11: | Mark Brown |
Predecessor11: | Rose Toki-Brown |
Office12: | Minister of Education |
Term Start12: | 4 June 2020 |
Primeminister12: | Henry Puna Mark Brown |
Predecessor12: | Henry Puna |
Office13: | Minister of Internal Affairs |
Term Start13: | 21 September 2018 |
Term End13: | 2 June 2021 |
Predecessor13: | Albert Nicholas |
Successor13: | Rose Toki-Brown |
Office14: | Minister of Police |
Primeminister14: | Henry Puna |
Term Start14: | 21 September 2018 |
Term End14: | 4 June 2020 |
Predecessor14: | Albert Nicholas |
Successor14: | Henry Puna |
Constituency Mp15: | Nikao–Panama |
Parliament15: | Cook Islands |
Term Start15: | 14 June 2018 |
Predecessor15: | Ngamau Munokoa |
Birth Date: | 28 December 1966 |
Birth Place: | Atiu, Cook Islands |
Party: | Cook Islands Party |
Alma Mater: | University of the South Pacific |
Vaine Makiroa Mokoroa (born 28 December 1966) is a Cook Islands politician and Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Cook Islands Party.
Mokoroa was born in 1966 in Atiu.[1] He has previously worked as a police officer, chief of staff in the office of the Prime Minister, and as acting secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning.[2] He entered parliament in the 2018 elections, winning the seat of Nikao–Panama from Ngamau Munokoa.[3] In September 2018 he was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Police and Internal Affairs, following the sacking of Albert Nicholas.[4] [5] In June 2020 he surrendered his police portfolio and was appointed Education Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.[6]
In the Cabinet reshuffle following the appointment of Mark Brown as Prime Minister his position as Education Minister was confirmed, and he retained all his other Cabinet portfolios.[7] A further reshuffle in June 2021 saw him swap his Internal Affairs portfolio for Justice.[8]
He was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election.[9]