Percy Sione Havea Taione (born September 2, 1971), more commonly known as Sione Taione, is a

Tonga Tonga (, ; ), officially the Kingdom of Tonga ( to, Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country and archipelago. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in ...

n politician. He belongs to the Seventh Day Adventist Church and serves as an Elder for the Malapo Church in Tonga. He attended Beulah Primary School and continued to secondary at

Beulah College Beulah College is a coeducational Christian secondary school in Tongatapu, Tonga, established in 1938. The SDA Annual Statistics first report on Beulah College in 1941. It lists 109 students and five teachers for only grades 1–8. Four students ...

. He continued onto tertiary education and obtained a Diploma in Law from the

University of the South Pacific The University of the South Pacific (USP) is a public research university with locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania. Established in 1968, the university is organised as an intergovernmental organisation and is owned by the go ...

. He began working in the Supreme Court as a translator in 1990 and in 1997 became an interpreter. He became the Supreme Court Registrar in 2005. In all he has been working at the Supreme Court of Tonga for 20 years. He is one of the first qualified mediators in Tonga and is also the legal advisor for the Tongan Public Service Association (PSA) before going into politics. There is only one other qualified mediator in Tonga. His career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the eighth constituency of

Tongatapu Tongatapu is the main island of Tonga and the site of its capital, Nukualofa. It is located in Tonga's southern island group, to which it gives its name, and is the country's most populous island, with 74,611 residents (2016), 70.5% of the nation ...

in the November 2010 general election. Standing as a candidate for the

Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands The Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands ( to, Paati Temokalati ʻa e ʻOtu Motu ʻAngaʻofa) is a political party in Tonga. The party's leader at its foundation was 'Akilisi Pohiva. The party was launched in September 2010, and included s ...

, he obtained 34.1% of the vote, seeing off nine other candidates. In July 2014 Taione was dumped as a Democratic Party candidate. He ran as an independent in the 2014 Tongan general election, but failed to win re-election.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taione, Sione 1971 births Members of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga Living people University of the South Pacific alumni Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands politicians Tongan Seventh-day Adventists People from Vavaʻu