Le Mamea Ropati

Le Mamea Ropati

Le Mamea Ropati is a Samoan politician, former Cabinet member, and former Leader of the Opposition. He represented the territorial constituency of Lefaga & Falese'ela between 1979 and 1987, and again since 1991.

In 1982 he served as Minister of Lands Survey, Post Office and Broadcasting. He subsequently served as Minister of Education, Youth, Sports & Cultural Affairs and Labour in the government of Tofilau Eti Alesana. Between 2001 and 2006, he was Leader of the Opposition Samoa Democratic United Party.

On 31 August 2006 Ropati was dumped as leader of the SDUP in favour of Asiata Sale’imoa Va’ai [ [http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=26488 Samoa opposition leader Ropati dumped] , "Radio New Zealand International", 31 August 2006] . He subsequently left the party, resulting in it no longer being recognised within the House [ [http://www.islandsbusiness.com/archives/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=130/focusContentID=6954/tableName=mediaRelease/overideSkinName=newsArticle-full.tpl Samoa Democratic United Party MPs become Independent MPs] , "Islands Business", 16 November 2006] . He is currently an independent MP.

External links

* [http://www.parliament.gov.ws/popup_mop.cfm?mop=036 Profile] at Samoan Fono

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