Konisi Tabu Yabaki was a

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an politician from the southern

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. He served in the

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from 2000 to 2006, but lost his portfolios as Minister for Fisheries and

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after the

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of 6–13 May 2006. He was subsequently appointed Chairman of the parliamentary committee on Social Services.

Political career

Yabaki won the Lomaivuna Namosi Kadavu Open Constituency for the

Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei The Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT), occasionally known in English as Fijian Political Party, was a party which dominated the politics of Fiji in the 1990s and was the mainstay of coalition governments from 1992 to 1999. Origins The party ...

(SVT) at the 1999

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. He was appointed Minister for Tourism and

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in the interim government that was formed in July 2000 the wake of the failed Fiji coup of 2000, which deposed the elected government of

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before being quashed by the

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. In the

held to restore democracy in September 2001, he won the

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Fijian Communal Constituency for the

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), defeating

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, who had held the seat for many years, and was subsequently appointed Minister for Forests and Fisheries. Yabaki's political career was ended by the military coup of 2006.

References

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