Fale Alea

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Fale Alea
Parliament coat of arms Parliament Building
(before being destroyed in February 2018)
logo Parliament Building (before being destroyed in February 2018)
Basic data
Seat: Nuku'alofa
Legislative period : three years
First session: September 16, 1875
MPs: 26th
Current legislative period
Last choice: 16th November 2017
Distribution of seats:
14th
3
9
14th 3 9 
A total of 26 seats
  • Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands : 14
  • Independent : 3
  • Nobles : 9
Website
www.parliament.gov.to

Fale Alea (in the official long form Fale Alea 'o Tonga ) is the parliament in the unicameral system of Tonga .

26 members of parliament are elected for three years each. It has its seat in the parliament building in the capital Nukuʻalofa . After the building was destroyed by a storm in February 2018, the MPs are meeting temporarily in the capital's Fa'onelua Convention Center .

history

Parliament had its first session on September 16, 1875.

The last elections took place on November 27, 2014, the penultimate on November 25, 2010. They were the first following a political reform in which King George Tupou V gave rights to parliament. While previously only nine out of 30 parliamentarians could be freely elected, in 2010 a majority of the seats were awarded by election for the first time (17 out of 26). The remaining parliamentarians who Nobles provided by the Tongan nobility, the king waived the appointment of its own representatives.

In November 2010, the newly elected parliament was the first that could elect the Prime Minister of Tonga himself.

Between February 12 and 13, 2018, the 100-year-old parliament building was destroyed by Cyclone Gita, a category 4 cyclone.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of Parliament. In: parliament.gov.to , accessed March 2015
  2. ^ Tonga Online. Accessed March 2015
  3. ^ New era in Tonga's parliamentary history about to unfold. RNZ, February 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ Tonga's king to cede key powers. In: BBC News , July 29, 2008.
  5. ↑ Tonga Parliament enacts political reforms. In: Radio New Nealand International , April 15, 2010.
  6. ↑ Tonga parliament building flattened by Cyclone Gita. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , February 13, 2018, accessed February 13, 2018 .
  7. ^ Cyclone "Gita" destroys parliament building on Tonga. In: Spiegel Online . SPIEGELnet GmbH, February 13, 2018, accessed on February 13, 2018 .

Coordinates: 21 ° 7 ′ 59.1 ″  S , 175 ° 11 ′ 55.1 ″  W.