Palusalue Fa’apo II

Palusalue Fa’apo II is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is the leader of the opposition Tautua Samoa Party.[1]

Palusalue was first elected to Parliament in 1996.[2] He served as Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Minister of Justice. After being re-elected in 2001, he was appointed to Cabinet, first as Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, and then as Minister of Communication & Information Technology. After the 2006 election he became associate Minister of Finance.[2]

Palusalue left the governing Human Rights Protection Party in March 2008 and joined the opposition as an independent MP.[3] He later became a founding member of the Tautua Samoa Party.[4] As a result, in May 2009 he was one of nine Tautua MPs declared to have resigned their seats under an anti-party hopping law.[5] He was subsequently reinstated after the Supreme Court of Samoa overturned the law and declared the formation of new parties legal.[6]

In January 2010 new anti-party-hopping laws came into force, barring MPs from declaring their support for political parties or organizations with political aims other than the party they were elected for.[7] As a result, along with Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi and Va'ai Papu Vailupe he was deemed to have resigned his seat.[8] He was re-elected in the resulting by-election.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Tautua president passes". Samoa Observer. 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
  2. 1 2 "Palusalue Fa’apo II". Legislative Assembly of Samoa. Archived from the original on August 24, 2007. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  3. ↑ "Two MPs in Samoa quit ruling party". Radio New Zealand International. 2008-03-16. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  4. ↑ Alan Ah Mu (2008-12-17). "Tautua Samoa officially launched". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  5. ↑ "By-elections to be called in Samoa for nine vacant parliamentary seats". Radio New Zealand International. 2009-05-31. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  6. ↑ "Samoa court reinstates nine MPs, cancels by-elections". Radio New Zealand International. 2009-07-02. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  7. ↑ "Samoa passes bill following last year’s Tautua Samoa episode". Radio New Zealand International. 2010-01-22. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  8. ↑ Alan Ah Mu (2010-03-18). "Va’ai springs election shock". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  9. ↑ Marieta Heidi Ilalio (2010-05-15). "Palu stays, Ale reigns". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 2010-05-16.


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