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Semisi Tapueluelu

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Majority
  
6.0%

Name
  
Semisi Tapueluelu

Role
  
Politician


Preceded by
  
none (constituency established)

Political party
  
Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands

Party
  
Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands

Semisi Palu ‘Ifoni Tapueluelu (born October 28, 1949), more commonly known as Semisi Tapueluelu, is a Tongan politician.

After working as a prisons superintendent, he went into politics. His career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the tenth constituency of Tongatapu in the November 2010 general election. Standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands, he obtained 26.6% of the vote, seeing off eleven other candidates.

In July 2014 Tapueluelu was dumped as a Democratic Party candidate.

References

Semisi Tapueluelu Wikipedia