Charmaine Scotty

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Julie Bishop and Charmaine Scotty (right) with students from Nauru Secondary School after the 2013 Australian-funded renovation of the school

Charmaine Eraidinomo Scotty is a Nauruan politician. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Nauruan Parliament and Minister of the Interior , Education and Land Management .

Career

Scotty attended the Baradene College of the Sacred Heart in Auckland . From 1990 she worked in the civil service of Nauru. Initially, she worked as a teacher for nine years. Afterwards she was ministerial secretary in the areas of sport, youth and women, health, justice and home affairs.

Scotty initially ran three unsuccessful parliamentary elections, with 2007 and 2010 just missing the required number of votes. On June 8, 2013, she won the most votes in her constituency of Yaren . This made her the second woman after Ruby Dediya to be elected to the Nauruan parliament. President Baron Waqa appointed her Minister of the Interior and Minister of Education and Land Management. In the elections on July 9, 2016, she was able to repeat her success and was subsequently appointed minister again.

Charmaine Scotty is married to a cousin of former President Ludwig Scotty .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nauru 2016 elections wrap up naurugov.nr. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Nauru gets second woman MP, first in nearly 30 years. on Radio New Zealand
personal data
SURNAME Scotty, Charmaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scotty, Charmaine Eraidinomo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nauruan politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century