Tetangi Matapo
Tetangi Matapo | |
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Member of the Cook Islands Parliament for Tamarua | |
Assumed office 29 January 2013 | |
Preceded by | Pukeiti Pukeiti |
Personal details | |
Political party | Cook Islands Democratic Party |
Tetangi Matapo (born c. 1966) is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.
Matapo was a teacher and later deputy principal at .[1] She was elected to Parliament in the 2013 Tamarua by-election.[2] In April 2013 she attended the inaugural in Wellington, New Zealand.[3]
At the 2014 election, she lost the seat on the night to the Cook Islands Party's , but regained it in an electoral petition.[4] In 2015, she was appointed opposition spokesperson for Education and Internal Affairs.[5] In 2016, she was part of the Cook Islands' delegation to the second Pacific Parliamentary Forum.[6]
She was re-elected at the 2018 election.[7] Shortly after the election she was sent to the 2018 Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference in Wellington as "interim Deputy Speaker", despite there having been no election for the position.[8]
In December 2019 she was part of a protest by women MPs to permit the wearing of ei katu (floral crowns) in Parliament.[9]
In February 2020 she was appointed Democratic Party spokesperson for Business, Trade and Investment Board, Education and Justice.[10]
References[]
- ^ Moana Moeka’a (6 February 2013). "Teacher wins Tamarua". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ "New MP sworn in". Cook Islands News. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ "Cook Islanders speak in NZ House". Cook Islands News. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ "Demos take back Tamarua seat". Cook Islands News. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ "Party allocates 'shadow' portfolios". Cook Islands News. 18 November 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ "MPs represent country in NZ". Cook Islands News. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ "Power shift creates duplicate deputies". Cook Islands News. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ "Positively blooming in parliament". Cook Islands News. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ Melina Etches (19 February 2020). "Demos gunning for change". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
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