Te-Hani Brown | |
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Member of the Cook Islands Parliament for Tengatangi–Areora–Ngatiarua | |
Assumed office 14 June 2018 | |
Preceded by | Nandi Glassie |
Personal details | |
Born | Rarotonga,Cook Islands | 16 March 1996
Political party | Independent |
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 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]
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