Lenatai Victor Tamapua

Lenatai Victor Faafoi Tamapua is a Samoan politician. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

Lenatai Victor Tamapua
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Vaimauga No. 2
Assumed office
4 March 2011
Preceded byAnauli Pofitu Fesili
Personal details
Political partyHuman Rights Protection Party

Tamapua was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the 2011 election. He was reelected at the 2016 election. In March 2016 he was appointed Associate Minister of Justice and Courts Administration.[1][2] In November 2017 a cabinet reshuffle saw him switch portfolios with Associate Minister for Revenue, Prisons and Correction Services So’oalo Mene.[3]

In January 2019 Tamapua was awarded the title of Fuimaono by his village.[4]

He was re-elected in the 2021 election.[5]

References
  1. "Samoa PM Names 13 Associate Ministers". Talanei. 26 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  2. "Samoa's former deputy PM left out". RNZ. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. "Associate Ministers reshuffled". Samoa Observer. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  4. Yumi Epati Tala’ave (13 January 2019). "Associate Minister bestowed Fuimaono title at Salani Falealili". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  5. "Accounting error in Samoa election has top parties tied again". RNZ. 11 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.


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