Lionel Aingimea

Lionel Rouwen Aingimea is a Nauruan lawyer and politician. He currently serves as President of Nauru.

Lionel Aingimea
President of Nauru
Assumed office
27 August 2019
DeputyMartin Hunt[1]
Maverick Eoe[2]
Preceded byBaron Waqa
Assistant Minister for Justice and Border Control
In office
2016–2019
Member of Parliament for Meneng
Assumed office
2016
Personal details
BornNauru[3]
Political partyIndependent

Political career

Aingimea studied law in Australia and subsequently worked for the Regional Rights Resource Team NGO,[4] and as a public defender in the Marshall Islands.[3] He later worked as a lecturer in law at the University of the South Pacific.[3]

Aingimea ran for election to Parliament in the Meneng Constituency in 2013, but failed to be elected. Following the elections, he joined the new administration of President Baron Waqa as Secretary for Justice.[4][3]

After successfully contesting the Meneng seat in the 2016 elections, he was appointed Assistant Minister for Justice and Border Control in Waqa's government,[4] serving under Minister for Justice David Adeang. He was re-elected in the 2019 elections, which saw Waqa lose his seat. Following the elections, he was elected President by Parliament, defeating Adeang by twelve votes to six.[5]

References
  1. All new Cabinet named by Nauru President Aingimea Loop Nauru, 29 August 2019
  2. http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/c0643fb086d1e02141fc1b9590813c1b.pdf
  3. Lionel Rouwen Aingimea elected President of Nauru Archived 2019-08-28 at the Wayback Machine PMN News, 27 August 2019
  4. Nauru Parliament picks lawyer Lionel Aingimea for president Deutsche Welle, 27 August 2019
  5. Nauru's Parliament elects former human rights lawyer Lionel Aingimea as President ABC News, 27 August 2019
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