Tevita Lavemaau is a

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n politician and Member of the

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. Lavemaau was first elected at the

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and appointed Minister of Revenue and Customs. Following the resignation of

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in March 2017 he was appointed

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. In September 2017 he and Deputy Prime Minister

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were sacked for disloyalty for supporting King

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's decision to sack the Prime Minister, dissolve Parliament and call new elections. He was re-elected at the 2017 election, but not reappointed to Cabinet. In 2019 following the death of

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he was appointed to the cabinet of Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa as Minister for Finance, Minister for Revenue and Customs and Minister responsible for Statistics. He lost his seat in the

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