Tobwaan Kiribati Party

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Tobwaan Kiribati Party
Party leader Taneti Maamau
Maneaba ni Maungatabu
19/46

The Tobwaan Kiribati Party (TKP) is a political party in Kiribati .

The party was founded in January 2016 as a merger of the Maurin Kiribati Party and the United Coalition Party and consists of the opposition to former President Anote Tong . The two parties won 19 of the 45 elected seats in the House of Representatives, the Maneaba ni Maungatabu , in the 2015/16 parliamentary elections . Teatao Teannaki , a member of the TKP, was subsequently elected as speaker of parliament.

For the office of president Taneti Maamau was nominated as a candidate for the presidential elections in 2016 , he received 19,833 votes, around 60%, and prevailed against Rimeta Beniamina as the new president of Kiribati in 16 of 23 constituencies .

The name of the party means "Embracing Kiribati" (about "embracing Kiribati").

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiribati party merger ahead of presidential poll. Radio New Zealand , January 29, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ IPU PARLINE database: KIRIBATI (Maneaba Ni Maungatabu), Last elections. In: ipu.org. Accessed December 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Taneti Mamau declared new Kiribati President. In: pina.com.fj. PINA, Pacific Islands News Association, March 9, 2016, accessed December 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Abaokoro: Making waves. In the South Pacific climate change animates a presidential election . In: The Economist . March 10, 2016 ( economist.com [accessed December 6, 2017]).