Jason Bingham Agir is a Nauruan politician.

Career

On 12 January 2012, Agir was made a director on the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation Board. Agir unsuccessfully ran in the 2013 parliamentary election. In the 2016 parliamentary election Agir was elected to represent the

Buada Constituency Buada Constituency is one of the constituencies of Nauru. It returns two members from Buada to the Parliament of Nauru The Parliament of Nauru has 19 members, elected for a three-year term in multi-seat constituencies. The President of Nauru ...

. On 20 July, President

Baron Waqa Baron Divavesi Waqa (; born 31 December 1959) is a Nauruan politician who was the 14th President of Nauru from 11 June 2013 until 27 August 2019. He previously served as Minister of Education from 2004 to 2007. Political role Waqa was elected in ...

appointed Agir as assistant minister for Telecommunications & Media, Sports, and the Eigigu Holdings Corporation. Agir was re-elected in the 2019 election. On 28 August, President

Lionel Aingimea Lionel Rouwen Aingimea (born 2 September 1965) is a Nauruan lawyer and politician. He served as the fifteenth president of Nauru from 2019 to 2022. He currently serves as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru. Early life Aingimea was born i ...

appointed Agir as assistant minister for Land Management and the Eigigu Holdings Corporation. Agir was again re-elected in the 2022 election. On 29 September, President

Russ Kun Russ Joseph Kun (born 8 September 1975) is a Nauruan politician who has been president of Nauru since being elected in the 2022 presidential election. He has served as a member of parliament for Ubenide since 2013. Biography Kun was born on ...

appointed Agir as deputy minister for Land Management, the Eigigu Holding Corporation, and Nauru National Heritage &

Museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

. On 21 March 2023, President Kun changed Agir's appointments to be deputy minister for Land Managemnt, the Cenpac Corporation, and the Eigigu Holdings Corporation. On 30 October 2023, after a no-confidence vote against President Kun, there was a vote for president among the Parliament. Agir nominated

Delvin Thoma Delvin Oneil Thoma (born 8 February 1983) is a Nauruan politician. Career In the 2019 Nauruan parliamentary election, Thoma unsuccessfully ran for the Aiwo Constituency. Out of eight candidates, Thoma came in fourth. In the 2022 parliamentary ...

. After the first secret ballot, MP

David Adeang David Waiau Adeang (born 24 November 1969) is a Nauruan politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru, and Nauru's Minister of Finance and Justice, as well as the Minister Assisting the President of Nauru. He is a founding member of the N ...

and Thoma were tied at nine votes. In the second vote, Thoma received only eight votes to Adeang's ten, resulting in the election of Adeang as president.

References

Living people Members of the Parliament of Nauru People from Buada District 21st-century Nauruan politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Nauru-bio-stub