Siromi Turaga | |
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Attorney-General of Fiji | |
Assumed office 24 December 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Sitiveni Rabuka |
Preceded by | Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum |
Member of the Fijian Parliament for PA List | |
Assumed office 14 December 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1967/1968(age 54–55) [1] Tovulailai,Fiji |
Political party | People's Alliance |
Siromi Dokonivalu Turaga is a Fijian lawyer,politician,and cabinet minister. Since 24 December 2022 he has been attorney-general of Fiji. He is a member of the People's Alliance.
Turaga was born in Tovulailai on Nairai in the Lomaiviti Islands and educated at AOG Primary School in Kinoya and Central Fijian School in Nausori. [1] After studying in Australia on a Fijian Affairs Board scholarship he attended the University of the South Pacific,where he studied history and politics,and Saint Peter's University in the United States,where he studied political science. [1] He joined the Fijian civil service in 1991 as a cadet in the prime minister's office,and later studied law. [1] Admitted as a lawyer in 1999,he worked for the Attorney-General's office before being appointed a magistrate in 2012. [2] [3] In April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic he acquitted two men of breaching a curfew on the grounds that the charge was defective as the Prime Minister had no power to order arrests under the Public Health Act. [4] The ruling was subsequently set aside by the High Court, [5] and in May 2020 his contract as a magistrate was not renewed. [2] He later claimed that he was fired for ruling against the government. [6]
In May 2022 he was announced as a People's Alliance candidate for the 2022 Fijian general election. [7] [8] During the election campaign he said that he supported jailing FijiFirst leaders Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum if there were charges that supported it. [9]
He was elected to the Parliament of Fiji with 2860 votes. [10] [11] On 24 December 2022 he was appointed Attorney-General in the coalition government of Sitiveni Rabuka. [12]
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