Au'uapaau Mulipola Aloitafua is a
Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...
n politician and Deputy Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly of Samoa. He is a member of the
FAST Party.
Aloitafua was educated at Avele College and worked at the Post Office and
Polynesian Airlines before running a consultancy service for the Land and Titles Court.
He was first elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the
2021 Samoan general election
General elections were held in Samoa on 9 April 2021 to determine the composition of the 17th Parliament. In March 2021, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, a former member of the ruling Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) and a former Deputy Prime Minis ...
. On 22 May 2021 he was nominated by FAST as Deputy Speaker. On 24 May he was sworn in during an ad-hoc ceremony after being locked out of Parliament.
The appointment was disputed by the caretaker government. On 23 July 2021 the Court of Appeal ruled that the swearing-in ceremony was constitutional and binding, and that FAST had been the government since 24 May.
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