Opili Talafasi is a former

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 ...

an politician who served as a Member of the

Niue Assembly The Niue Assembly ( niu, Niue Fono Ekepule) is the legislature of Niue. It consists of 20 members; 14 representatives of the villages and 6 elected on a common roll. Members are directly elected by universal suffrage, and serve a three-year t ...

for 33 years, from 1990 to 2023. Talafasi was first elected to the Assembly in the

1990 Niuean general election General elections were held in Niue on 7 April 1990, seven months after Cyclone Ofa caused considerable damage to the island. While primarily contested by independents, the election was contested by Young Vivian's Niue People's Action Party (N ...

. At the 1996 election he tied with his opponent, Lagaloga Mitikose, but won the seat when his name was drawn from a hat. He was narrowly re-elected at the 2011 election, but his re-election led to violence and his son's house was burned down in an arson attack. Continuing disputes over the violence saw Talafasi lock the village out of the local church for several months. He was re-elected at the 2020 election, but lost his seat by a single vote at the 2023 election.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Niue Assembly {{Niue-politician-stub