Tereapii Maki-Kavana (born 18 January 1963) is a

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politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. He is a member of the

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 ...

. Maki-Kavana is from

Aitutaki Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araura and Utataki, is the second most-populated island in the Cook Islands, after Rarotonga. It is an "almost atoll", with fifteen islets in a lagoon adjacent to the main island. Total land area is , and the ...

and was educated at Vaitau School and Araura College. He worked as a banker for the Post Office, Cook Islands Savings Bank, and Bank of the Cook Islands. He was first elected to Parliament at the 2018 election. He is a Seventh day Adventist. He was re-elected at the

2022 Cook Islands general election General elections were held in the Cook Islands on 1 August 2022. A referendum on legalising medical cannabis was held on the same day. Background In the 2018 general election, the Democratic Party won a plurality with 11 seats but fell shor ...

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