Iakoba Italeli

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Iakoba Italeli is a political figure and government minister from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu.

1 Political office
2 Constituency background
3 See also
4 External Link

[edit] Political office

Since 2006 he has been Minister of Education and Sports, and Health, in the government of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Apisai Ielemia.

[edit] Constituency background

Italeli was elected to represent Nui in the Parliament of Tuvalu on a non-partisan basis; this lack of alignment is not unusual in the politics of Tuvalu; unusually for Tuvalu, Italeli represents a constituency where trilingualism is a feature, since many inhabitants of Nui originate from Kiribati, and thus speak Gilbertese, in addition to Tuvaluan and English, the fluency of which varies among local people.