Joji Banuve

Joji Natadra Banuve (1940 – 17 June 2009) was a

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

an politician, who served in the

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as Assistant Minister for Local Government,

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, Squatter Settlement, and

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. In the aforementioned roles, he assisted

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Pio Wong Pio Iowane Wong is a Fijian politician of Fijian and Chinese descent. He served in the Cabinet from 2004 to 2006 as Minister for Local Government, Housing, Squatter Settlement, and the Environment. In the election held in September 2001, W ...

, who succeeded him in all of these portfolios. Banuve's first foray into politics was in the 1999

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, in which he unsuccessfully contested the Ra Open Constituency on behalf of the Christian Democratic Alliance (VLV). After the VLV disintegrated in 2001, in the wake of the

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which deposed the government of

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Mahendra Chaudhry Mahendra Pal Chaudhry ( hif, महेन्द्र पाल चौधरी; born 9 February 1942) is a Fijian politician and the leader of the Fiji Labour Party. Following a historic election in which he defeated the long-time former lead ...

in May 2000, Banuve joined the newly formed

Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua The United Fiji Party ( fj, Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua, SDL) was a political party in Fiji. It was founded in 2001 by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as a power base; it absorbed most of the Christian Democratic Alliance and other conser ...

(SDL) of

Laisenia Qarase Laisenia Qarase (pronounced ; 4 February 1941 – 21 April 2020) was a Fijian politician. He served as the sixth Prime Minister of Fiji from 2000 to 2006. After the military quashed the coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry, Qarase ...

, and in the

held to restore democracy in September 2001, he won the North West Urban Fijian Communal Constituency for the SDL, and was subsequently appointed to the Cabinet. Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua politicians 1940 births 2009 deaths Government ministers of Fiji Christian Democratic Alliance (Fiji) politicians I-Taukei Fijian members of the House of Representatives (Fiji) Politicians from Ra Province {{Fiji-politician-stub