Tetangi Matapo | |
|---|---|
 Tetangi Matapo in 2016 | |
| Member of the Cook Islands Parliament for Tamarua | |
| Assumed office 29 January 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Pukeiti Pukeiti |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 October 1965 |
| Political party | Cook Islands Democratic Party |
Tetangi Matapo (born 3 October 1965) [1] is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.
Matapo was born on Mangaia and educated at Mangaia School and Mangaia College. [1] She studied to be a teacher at the University of the South Pacific,graduating with a Bachelor of Education and a Masters of Education. [1] She worked as a teacher and later deputy principal at Mangaia School. [2] [3] She was elected to Parliament in the 2013 Tamarua by-election. [4] In April 2013 she attended the inaugural Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Wellington,New Zealand. [5]
At the 2014 election,she lost the seat on the night to the Cook Islands Party's Tokorua Pareina,but regained it in an electoral petition. [6] In 2015,she was appointed opposition spokesperson for Education and Internal Affairs. [7] In 2016,she was part of the Cook Islands' delegation to the second Pacific Parliamentary Forum. [8]
She was re-elected at the 2018 election. [9] Shortly after the election she was sent to the 2018 Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference in Wellington as "interim Deputy Speaker",despite there having been no election for the position. [10] In December 2019 she was part of a protest by women MPs to permit the wearing of ei katu (floral crowns) in Parliament. [11] In February 2020 she was appointed Democratic Party spokesperson for Business,Trade and Investment Board,Education and Justice. [12]
She was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election. [13]
