Lautafi Fio Selafi Purcell

Lautafi Fio Selafi Joseph Purcell is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

Lautafi Fio Selafi Purcell
Purcell in 2018
Minister of Labour, Industry and Commerce
In office
18 March 2016 – 24 May 2021[lower-alpha 1]
Prime MinisterTuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi
Preceded byFonotoe Pierre Lauofo
Succeeded byFaumuina Asi Pauli Wayne Fong
Minister of Public Enterprises
In office
26 April 2014 – 24 May 2021
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byFaumuina Asi Pauli Wayne Fong
Minister of Tourism
In office
18 March 2016 – 30 June 2016
Preceded byTuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi
Succeeded bySala Fata Pinati
Member of the Samoan Parliament
for Satupaitea
Assumed office
2 August 2011
Preceded byAsiata Sale'imoa Va'ai
Personal details
Political partyHuman Rights Protection Party

Purcell was educated at Chanel College, Moamoa and St Paul's College, Auckland as well as Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.[1] He subsequently worked as a prison manager, prison inspector and policy advisor for the New Zealand Department of Justice and Department of Corrections.[1]

Purcell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in a 2011 by-election,[2] and appointed Associate Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.[1] Following a Cabinet reshuffle in April 2014 he was appointed as the first Minister of Public Enterprises.[3]

He was re-elected unopposed at the 2016 Samoan general election[4][5] and appointed Minister of Labour, Tourism and Samoa Land Corporation, as well as retaining his Government Enterprises portfolio.[6][7] Another reshuffle in June 2016 saw him lose the Tourism portfolio to Sala Fata Pinati but retain Labour, Commerce, and Government Enterprises.[8]

He is married to public servant Lematua Gisa Fuatai Purcell.[9]

Notes
  1. Disputed 24 May — 23 July 2021

References
  1. "Honourable Lautafi Fio Selafi Joseph Purcell". Government of Samoa. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. "Bi-election clean sweep for HRPP". Savali. 2 August 2011. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
  3. "Samoa's PM new head of Finance Ministry". RNZ. 26 April 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  4. Lanuola Tusani Tupufia (13 February 2016). "Lautafi returns unopposed". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  5. "Samoa's ruling HRPP retains 4 seats ahead of the poll". RNZ. 25 February 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  6. "Many New Faces in Samoa Cabinet". Talanei. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  7. "Former Samoa deputy PM left out of cabinet". RNZ. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  8. "Samoa PM reshuffles his cabinet". RNZ. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  9. "Cabinet Appoints Lematua Gisa Fuatai Purcell as the Regulator". Talamua. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.


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