Leneuoti Matusi is a

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an politician and former civil servant who was elected as an

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MP for the Nui constituency in a 2013

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, having previously served as the Secretary of the Nui Falekaupule. Matusi gained 297 votes out of 778 to gain the seat from the former sitting member Taom Tanukale who polled just 160 votes after resigning from Parliament on 30 July 2013 following the

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. He will represent Nui alongside

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, who is the island's only female MP. A week after the by-election, Prime Minister

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announced that Matusi had joined the government's side, helping to boost their members to nine. Matusi was not re-elected to parliament in the 2015 Tuvaluan general election.

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