Leota Tima Leavai | |
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Member of the Samoa Parliament for Falealupo | |
In office 9 April 2021 –9 July 2021 | |
Preceded by | A'eau Peniamina |
Succeeded by | Fuiono Tenina Crichton |
Personal details | |
Political party | Human Rights Protection Party |
Aeau Leota Tima Leavai (born ~1960) [1] is a Samoan lawyer and politician. She is the daughter of former MP A'eau Peniamina. [1]
Leavai is a lawyer who runs her own law firm. [2] She contested the April 2021 Samoan general election in her father's seat of Falealupo as a candidate for the Human Rights Protection Party, [2] [3] and won the seat. [4] On 29 June 2021 the Samoa Observer reported that she planned to resign her seat and not run again,as part of the settlement of an electoral petition. [5] She formally resigned on 9 July. [6]
In June 2020 Leavai was awarded the Aeau title by her village. [1]
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