Te-Hani Brown

Te-Hani Brown
Member of the Cook Islands Parliament
for Tengatangi–Areora–Ngatiarua
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 June 2018
Preceded byNandi Glassie
Personal details
Born (1996-03-16) 16 March 1996 (age 28)
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Political partyIndependent

Te-Hani Rose Alexandra Brown (born 16 March 1996) is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is an independent.

Career

Te-Hani Brown was born in 1996 in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.[1] Brown is the daughter of MP Rose Toki-Brown.[2] She was first elected to parliament as a candidate for the Cook Islands Democratic Party in the 2018 election,[3] defeating Nandi Glassie. At age 22, she was the youngest MP in the Pacific region.[4]

In January 2019 Brown resigned from the Democratic party to support the government of Henry Puna.[5] Anti-party hopping laws forced her to resign from parliament. She contested the subsequent by-election as an independent, and was re-elected,[6] but resigned the seat again just two weeks later when an electoral petition was filed.[7] She contested a second by-election in November 2019 and was re-elected for a third time.[8]

Following the election of Mark Brown as Prime Minister she was appointed Associate Minister of Internal Affairs and Health.[9]

She was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election[10] and continued her support for Mark Brown.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Te-Hani Rose Alexandra BROWN". Parliament of the Cook Islands. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  2. ^ Rashneel Kumar (15 June 2018). "Mother, daughter make a clean sweep". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  4. ^ Anneka Brown (10 October 2019). "Te-Hani's lecture on life as a politician". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Cooks opposition MP confirms defection". RNZ. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Te-Hani Brown wins Cook Islands by-election". Radio New Zealand. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Re-elected Cooks MP resigns during petition process". RNZ. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  8. ^ Rashneel Kumar (15 November 2019). "Atiu by-election win a 'huge endorsement of the Government'". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  9. ^ Emmanuel Samoglou and Rashneel Kumar (8 October 2020). "PM takes on 17 portfolios". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  10. ^ "WARRANT DECLARING THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AND THE NUMBER OF VOTES RECEIVED BY EACH CANDIDATE" (PDF). Cook Islands Gazette. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  11. ^ Matthew Littlewood (5 August 2022). "'Super Browns' side CIP in coalition talks". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 6 August 2022.


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