Va'aiga Paotama Tukuitonga is a

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an politician and former Cabinet Minister. She is member of the

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for the village of

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North. Tukuitonga was educated at

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. She has previously worked as a Justice of Peace, public servant, and schoolteacher. She was first elected to the Assembly in the

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, defeating sitting

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in his own seat. She was re-elected at the 2002 and 2005 elections, and appointed to the Cabinet of

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as Minister of Education after the latter. She was elected unopposed at the

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. In 2013 Tukuitonga blamed Niue's falling population on the use of contraception. Tukuitonga retired from politics at the

2023 Niuean general election General elections were held in Niue on 29 April 2023. The elections were originally planned to be held early, in late February or early March. Eight new MPs and six women were elected. Following the elections the Assembly elected Dalton Tagelag ...

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