Joeli Ratulevu Cawaki is a Fijian politician and former Assistant Minister and Member of the Parliament of Fiji.
Cawaki is a former naval officer. [1] From 2010 to 2014 he was Commissioner of the Western Division. He resigned in July 2014 in order to become a candidate for the FijiFirst Party. [2]
Cawaki was elected to Parliament in the 2014 election, in which he won 3,394 votes. [3] He was appointed Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Natural Disaster Management. [4]
Cawaki was not selected by FijiFirst as a candidate for the 2018 election. [5]
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