The Party Tumu 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 ...
in the
Cook Islands
)
, image_map = Cook Islands on the globe (small islands magnified) (Polynesia centered).svg
, capital = Avarua
, coordinates =
, largest_city = Avarua
, official_languages =
, lan ...
. It was founded in July 2010 by
Cook Islands Party
The Cook Islands Party is a nationalist political party in the Cook Islands. It was the first political party founded in the Cook Islands, and one of the two major parties of the islands' politics since 1965.
From 1999 until 2005 it sometimes ...
MP
Albert (Peto) Nicholas after a split over candidate selection. Originally known as the "Cook Islands Party Tumu" ("real" or "true" Cook Islands Party), the party was forced to rename itself after the CIP successfully sought a court injunction preventing them from using the name Cook Islands Party.
The breakaway party attracted the support of influential CIP backer
Tupui Ariki Henry, son of CIP founder and former Prime Minister
Albert Henry, but it has not attracted the support of any other CIP MPs.
The party's aims were the same as those of the CIP: nationalism and economic development.
In addition, the party opposes major political reform and instead supports reforms of the Parliamentary process.
[ It supported coalition government, but opposed any constitutional amendments.][
The party did not attract any other election candidates,][ and Nicholas failed to win his seat. It did not run any candidates in the ]2014 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2014.
* 2014 United Nations Security Council election 16 October 2014
Africa
* 2014 Algerian presidential election 17 April 2014
* 2014 Botswana general election 24 October 2014
* 2014 Comorian presi ...
References
Political parties in the Cook Islands
Political parties established in 2010
2010 establishments in the Cook Islands
Defunct political parties in the Cook Islands
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
{{CookIslands-stub