Maurin Kiribati Party

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Maurin Kiribati Party (MKP, MK)
Rimeta Beniamina 2014.jpg
Party leader Rimeta Beniamina
(former)
Maneaba ni Maungatabu Election successes:
0/40
- Election 2003
(8th Parliament, 2003-2007)
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0/44
- Election 2007
(9th Parliament, 2007-2011)
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3/44
- Election 2011
(10th Parliament, 2012-2015)
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1/44
- Election 2015
(11th Parliament, 2016-2020)

The Maurin Kiribati Party , MKP ( German  Protects Kiribati! Party ), was a political party in Kiribati in the Maneaba ni Maungatabu (House of Assembly). Party affiliation in Kiribati is handled only loosely. In the presidential election on July 4, 2003, Banuera Berina ran for the party and won 9.1% of the vote.

In the 2011 elections, the party won three seats. MP Nabuti Mwemwenikarawa, representative for North Tarawa, became opposition leader.

In 2015, the party only won one seat in the parliamentary elections.

On January 29, 2016, the party merged with Teburoro Tito's United Coalition Party for the Tobwaan Kiribati Party .

literature

  • Stephen Levine (Ed.): Pacific Ways: Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands. 2nd Edition. Victoria University Press, Wellington 2016, ISBN 978-1-77656-026-4 ( Google books ).
  • Tom Lansford (Ed.): Political Handbook of the World 2012. Sage, CQ Press, Thousand Oaks, California 2012, p. 767, ISBN 978-1-60871-995-2 .
  • Tom Lansford (Ed.): Political Handbook of the World 2016–2017. CQ Press, Sage, Thousand Oaks, California 2017, p. 811, ISBN 978-1-5063-2715-0 ( Google books ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Political Parties. In: gov.ki. Maneaba ni Maungatabu, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Levine, 2016
  3. ↑ Kiribati party merger ahead of presidential poll. In: co.nz. Radio New Zealand , January 29, 2016, accessed July 29, 2019 .