The Niue People's Party (also known as the Niue People's Action Party) was a

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Niue Niue (, ; niu, Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. Niue is located in a triangle between Tong ...

. Founded in 1987 by Niueans living in

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, it was disbanded in 2003. It was, during that time, the country's only political party. The party won four seats at the 1987 Niuean general election. The Niue People's Party (NPP) first entered

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in 1996. The party won the elections of 1999 and

Sani Lakatani Sani Elia Lagigietama Lakatani (born 1936) is a former Premier of Niue. He was a member of the Niue People's Party. Early life Lakatani served in the New Zealand Army as a corporal. He was deployed to Vietnam as part of the Whiskey2 deployment ...

became Premier (Chief Minister). Lakatani was succeeded in 2002 by Mititaiagimene Young Vivian, also a member of the NPP. During the

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held on 21 April 2002, the party won six seatsOfficial website
of the

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: "Niue-Politics" and supported 14 out of the 20 elected members, enabling it to take part in government. The party dissolved itself in 2003, following internal dissent. Since then, there has been no political party in Niue.

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