The Maurin Kiribati Party (''Protect Kiribati Party'') was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Kiribati Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),Kiribati
''The Wor ...

. At the presidential

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...

of 4 July 2003, its candidate

Banuera Berina Banuera Berina (born 3 November 1962 in Beru) is a lawyer and a politician from Kiribati, representing Kuria in the House of Assembly. He was the opposition candidate in the 2020 Kiribati presidential election. Berina was a private lawyer since ...

won 9.1%. On 29 January 2016, it merged with

Teburoro Tito Teburoro Tito (''modern'' spelling Tiito, pronounced Seetoh) (born 25 August 1953) is an I-Kiribati politician who served as the President and foreign minister of Kiribati from 1 October 1994 to 28 March 2003. He was elected for the first time in ...

United Coalition Party The United Coalition Party ( gil, Karikirakean Te I-Kiribati; KTK), also known as the Improving I-Kiribati Welfare Party, was a political party in Kiribati. History The party was established in August 2010 as a merger of the Kiribati Independent ...

to form the

Tobwaan Kiribati Party The Tobwaan Kiribati Party ( en, Embracing Kiribati Party; TKP) is a political party in Kiribati. History The party was established in January 2016 as a merger of the Maurin Kiribati Party and the United Coalition Party. The two parties had won ...

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