Melania Carolina Hotu Hey

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Melania Carolina Hotu Hey is the provincial governor of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), in Chilean Polynesia. She was appointed in 2006 by Michelle Bachelet Jeria in partial fulfillment of the newly elected Chilean president's promise to place more women into governmental positions. Before beginning her term as governor (suerekao), Hotu Hey directed a program for Rapa Nui youth. She is married to a Chilean journalist, Juan Pedro Soler Bolt, who publishes the Te Rapa Nui. They have six children.