Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi

Maʻafu Siosaia Lausiʻi
Minister for Lands, Survey, Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 January 2011
Prime Minister	Lord Tuʻivakanō
Preceded by	Lord Tuita (Lands, Survey & Natural Resources) Himself (Environment and Climate Change)
Minister for the Environment and Climate Change
In office July 2009 – 4 January 2011
Prime Minister	Feleti Sevele
Succeeded by	Himself
Member of Parliament for Tongatapu
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 April 2008
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Born	1955
Political party	none (Nobles' Representative)

Siosaia Lausiʻi, but since his installation on 30 Oct 1997 with the noble title Maʻafu (shortened for Maʻafu Tukuʻiʻaulahi, meaning Maʻafu put in the strong current, after a happening with an ancestor around 1820), better known as Lord Maʻafu, is a Tongan politician, former military officer, and member of the Tongan nobility.

He served as a commissioned officer in the Tonga Defence Services for more than twenty years, before serving as Private Secretary to King Taufaʻahau Tupou IV from 2001 to 2006.^[1]

He went into politics in 2008, elected to the Legislative Assembly as a Nobles' Representative for Tongatapu, receiving ten votes from fellow electors of the nobility in the general election in April.^[2] In July 2009, he was appointed Minister for the Environment and Climate Change in Prime Minister Feleti Sevele's Cabinet.^{[3] [4]}

He retained his seat in the November 2010 general election, again receiving ten votes.^[5] He was then appointed Minister for Lands, Survey, Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change in Prime Minister Lord Tuʻivakanō's Cabinet^[6] ; legislation enacted in 2010 prescribed that only a Nobles' Representative could be appointed Minister for Lands.^[7]

References

1. ^ Biography on the website of the Parliament of Tonga and another
2. ^ "Former Speaker Tu'iha'angana loses seat in Nobles election", Matangi Tonga, April 28, 2008
3. ^ Biography on the website of the Parliament of Tonga
4. ^ "Only three nobles chosen in 'able' new Tongan cabinet", Pacific Media Centre, January 3, 2011
5. ^ "Vaea and Tu'ilakepa to enter House in Nobles seats", Matangi Tonga, November 25, 2010
6. ^ "First meeting of Tonga's new Cabinet", Matangi Tonga, January 5, 2011
7. ^ "Crown Prince not elected as Noble Representative", Taimi Media Network, December 1, 2010

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