Tupou Alfred Faireka is a former deputy leader of the Cook Islands Party

Cook Islands Party

The Cook Islands Party is a nationalist political party in the Cook Islands. It was the first political party founded in the Cook Islands, and one of the two major parties of the Islands' politics since 1965....

. He was an MP for 13 years and served as a Cabinet Minister

Cook Islands Cabinet

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Faireka was first elected to Parliament

Parliament of the Cook Islands

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 in 1993, representing the consituency of Tupapa-Maraerenga. He served as Leader of the House in the coalition government of Robert Woonton

Robert Woonton

Dr Robert Woonton was the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from 11 February 2002 until 11 December 2004, and is a member of the centrist Democratic Party. A medical doctor by training, he became a Member of Parliament for the island of Manihiki...

, before being appointed as a Parliamentary Undersecretary in October 2002. He was appointed to the coalition Cabinet of Jim Marurai

Jim Marurai

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 as Minister of Justice, Agriculture and Marine Resources in December 2004, but was sacked in September 2005 after a coalition realignment.

In 2006, shortly before the 2006 election

Cook Islands general election, 2006

General elections were held in the Cook Islands on September 27, 2006 in order to elect 24 MPs to the Cook Islands Parliament. The Democratic Party remained in power, winning 15 of 24 seats. A total of 8,497 voters turned out to vote....

, Faireka was elected deputy leader of the Cook Islands Party. He subsequently lost his seat to Democratic Party

Democratic Party (Cook Islands)

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 member John Tangi

John Tangi

John David Tangi is a Cook Islands politician and former Member of the Cook Islands Parliament. He is a member of the Democratic Party....

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