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Tetangi Matapo (born 3 October 1965)[1] is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.

Matapo was born on Mangaia and educated at Mangaia School and Mangaia College.[1] She studied to be a teacher at the University of the South Pacific, graduating with a Bachelor of Education and a Masters of Education.[1] She worked as a teacher and later deputy principal at Mangaia School.[2] She was elected to Parliament in the 2013 Tamarua by-election.[3] In April 2013 she attended the inaugural Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Wellington, New Zealand.[4]

At the 2014 election, she lost the seat on the night to the Cook Islands Party's Tokorua Pareina, but regained it in an electoral petition.[5] In 2015, she was appointed opposition spokesperson for Education and Internal Affairs.[6] In 2016, she was part of the Cook Islands' delegation to the second Pacific Parliamentary Forum.[7]

She was re-elected at the 2018 election.[8] 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.[9] In December 2019 she was part of a protest by women MPs to permit the wearing of ei katu (floral crowns) in Parliament.[10] In February 2020 she was appointed Democratic Party spokesperson for Business, Trade and Investment Board, Education and Justice.[11]

She was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Tetangi MATAPO". Cook Islands Parliament. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  2. ^ Moana Moeka’a (6 February 2013). "Teacher wins Tamarua". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. ^ "New MP sworn in". Cook Islands News. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Cook Islanders speak in NZ House". Cook Islands News. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Demos take back Tamarua seat". Cook Islands News. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Party allocates 'shadow' portfolios". Cook Islands News. 18 November 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  7. ^ "MPs represent country in NZ". Cook Islands News. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Power shift creates duplicate deputies". Cook Islands News. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Positively blooming in parliament". Cook Islands News. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  11. ^ Melina Etches (19 February 2020). "Demos gunning for change". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  12. ^ "WARRANT DECLARING THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AND THE NUMBER OF VOTES RECEIVED BY EACH CANDIDATE" (PDF). Cook Islands Gazette. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.


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