Toka Hagai is a Cook Islands politician and former 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 ...

. Hagai stood unsuccessfully for Rakahanga at the

2010 Cook Islands general election General elections were held in the Cook Islands on 17 November 2010 in order to elect 24 MPs to the Cook Islands Parliament. The elections were won by the Cook Islands Party, which won 16 of the 24 seats. Voter turnout was 78%. A binding refer ...

. He was first elected to Parliament at the

2014 Cook Islands general election General elections were held in the Cook Islands on 9 July 2014, determining the membership of the 14th Cook Islands Parliament. The Cook Islands Party (CIP) initially appeared to have retained its majority, winning 13 seats, while the Democrat ...

, and was appointed Government Whip. In 2016 he was part of the Cook Islands' delegation to the

2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference The 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference was an international meeting of political leaders and activists to discuss environmental issues. It was held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 7–18 November 2016. The conference incorporated the twen ...

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, Morocco. He was re-elected on the night at the

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, but subsequently resigned following allegations of treating. His election was later declared void by the Court of Appeal, and his rival

Tina Browne Tina Pupuke-Browne (born 4 April 1955) is a Cook Islands politician and a member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is the leader of the Democratic Party. Career Brown was born in 1955 and is from the island of Rakahanga and is the daughter of ...

declared elected. Hagai was referred to the Police for bribery. while awaiting the outcome of the electoral petition against him Hagai had been elected Deputy speaker; he was replaced by Tai Tupa. In early 2019 Prime Minister Henry Puna planned to install Hagai as a seventh, unelected, Cabinet Minister, but the appointment was delayed due to the police investigation into his electoral bribery. In June 2019 it was reported that Hagai was occupying a government house in

Rarotonga Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of , and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 13,007 of a total population of 17,434. The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings a ...

earmarked for low-income families and outer-island MPs.

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