Fuimaono Naoia Tei is a

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n politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa. Elected as a member of the Samoan Democratic United Party, she later joined the

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. Fuimaono is a businesswoman and the daughter of the former Cabinet Minister Falealili Fuimaono Mimio. She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoain the

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, and was one of four women MPs at the time. In February 2007, SDUP deputy leader A'eau Peniamina left the party, and falsely claimed that Fuimaono had joined him. In 2009, she formally announced that she had joined the newly formed

. In May 2009, she was consequently expelled from Parliament by the Speaker, due to a rule prohibiting post-electoral party membership changes. In July 2009 her expulsion from parliament was quashed by the

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, who ruled that the formation of new parties by independents was legal. She lost her seat in the 2011 election.

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