Te-Hani Brown

Te-Hani Rose Alexandra Brown (born 16 March 1996) is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is an independent.

Te-Hani Brown
Member of the Cook Islands Parliament
for Tengatangi–Areora–Ngatiarua
Assumed office
14 June 2018
Preceded byNandi Glassie
Personal details
Born (1996-03-16) 16 March 1996
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Political partyIndependent

Career

Te-Hani Brown was born in 1996 in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.[1] Brown is the daughter of MP Rose Toki-Brown.[2] She was first elected to parliament as a candidate for the Cook Islands Democratic Party in the 2018 election,[3] defeating Nandi Glassie. At age 22, she was the youngest MP in the Pacific region.[4]

In January 2019 Brown resigned from the Democratic party to support the government of Henry Puna.[5] Anti-party hopping laws forced her to resign from parliament. She contested the subsequent by-election as an independent, and was re-elected,[6] but resigned the seat again just two weeks later when an electoral petition was filed.[7] She contested a second by-election in November 2019 and was re-elected for a third time.[8]

Following the election of Mark Brown as Prime Minister she was appointed Associate Minister of Internal Affairs and Health.[9]

She was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election[10] and continued her support for Mark Brown.[11]

References
  1. "Te-Hani Rose Alexandra BROWN". Parliament of the Cook Islands. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  2. Rashneel Kumar (15 June 2018). "Mother, daughter make a clean sweep". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  3. "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  4. Anneka Brown (10 October 2019). "Te-Hani's lecture on life as a politician". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  5. "Cooks opposition MP confirms defection". RNZ. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  6. "Te-Hani Brown wins Cook Islands by-election". Radio New Zealand. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  7. "Re-elected Cooks MP resigns during petition process". RNZ. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  8. Rashneel Kumar (15 November 2019). "Atiu by-election win a 'huge endorsement of the Government'". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  9. Emmanuel Samoglou and Rashneel Kumar (8 October 2020). "PM takes on 17 portfolios". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  10. "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.
  11. Matthew Littlewood (5 August 2022). "'Super Browns' side CIP in coalition talks". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 6 August 2022.


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