Vaine Mokoroa

Vaine Mokoroa
Vaine Mokoroa in 2019
Minister of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 June 2021
Prime Minister	Mark Brown
Preceded by	Rose Toki-Brown
Minister of Education
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2020
Prime Minister	Henry Puna Mark Brown
Preceded by	Henry Puna
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office 21 September 2018 – 2 June 2021
Preceded by	Albert Nicholas
Succeeded by	Rose Toki-Brown
Minister of Police
In office 21 September 2018 – 4 June 2020
Prime Minister	Henry Puna
Preceded by	Albert Nicholas
Succeeded by	Henry Puna
Member of the Cook Islands Parliament for Nikao–Panama
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 June 2018
Preceded by	Ngamau Munokoa
Personal details
Born	(1966-12-28) 28 December 1966 (age 58) Atiu, Cook Islands
Political party	Cook Islands Party
Alma mater	University of the South Pacific

Vaine Makiroa Mokoroa (born 28 December 1966) is a Cook Islands politician and Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Cook Islands Party.

Career

Mokoroa was born in 1966 in Atiu.[1] He has previously worked as a police officer, chief of staff in the office of the Prime Minister, and as acting secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning.[2] He entered parliament in the 2018 elections, winning the seat of Nikao–Panama from Ngamau Munokoa.[3] In September 2018 he was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Police and Internal Affairs, following the sacking of Albert Nicholas.[4][5] In June 2020 he surrendered his police portfolio and was appointed Education Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.[6]

In the Cabinet reshuffle following the appointment of Mark Brown as Prime Minister his position as Education Minister was confirmed, and he retained all his other Cabinet portfolios.[7] A further reshuffle in June 2021 saw him swap his Internal Affairs portfolio for Justice.[8]

He was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election.[9]

References

1. "Hon. Vaine Makiroa MOKOROA". Parliament of the Cook Islands. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
2. "Mokoroa takes over at MOIP". Cook Islands News. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
3. "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
4. "Cook Islands cabinet minister sacked". Radio New Zealand International. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
5. "Mokoroa pleased with portfolios". Cook Islands News. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
6. Rashneel Kumar (4 June 2020). "Puna takes on Police portfolio". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
7. Emmanuel Samoglou and Rashneel Kumar (8 October 2020). "PM takes on 17 portfolios". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
8. Rashneel Kumar (3 June 2021). "PM announces Cabinet reshuffle". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
9. "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.