Fuimaono Naoia Tei | |
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Member of the Samoa Parliament for Falealili | |
In office 31 March 2006 –4 March 2011 | |
Preceded by | Falealili Fuimaono Mimio |
Succeeded by | Tusa Misi Tupuola |
Personal details | |
Political party | Samoan Democratic United Party Tautua Samoa Party |
Fuimaono Naoia Tei is a Samoan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa. Elected as a member of the Samoan Democratic United Party,she later joined the Tautua Samoa Party.
Fuimaono is a businesswoman and the daughter of the former Cabinet Minister Falealili Fuimaono Mimio. [1]
She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the 2006 elections, [2] and was one of four women MPs at the time. In February 2007,SDUP deputy leader A'eau Peniamina left the party,and falsely claimed that Fuimaono had joined him. [3] In 2009,she formally announced that she had joined the newly formed Tautua Samoa Party. In May 2009,she was consequently expelled from Parliament by the Speaker,due to a rule prohibiting post-electoral party membership changes. [4] In July 2009,her expulsion from parliament was quashed by the Supreme Court of Samoa,who ruled that the formation of new parties by independents was legal. [5]
She lost her seat in the 2011 election.
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