Te-Hani Brown

Te-Hani Rose Alexandra Brown is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is an independent.

Te-Hani Brown
Member of the Cook Islands Parliament
for Tengatangi–Areora–Ngatiarua
Assumed office
14 June 2018
Preceded byNandi Glassie
Personal details
Political partyIndependent

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

In January 2019 Brown resigned from the Democratic party to support the government of Henry Puna.[4] Anti-party hopping laws forced her to resign from parliament. She contested the subsequent by-election as an independent, and was re-elected,[5] but resigned the seat again just two weeks later when an electoral petition was filed.[6] She contested a second by-election in November 2019 and was re-elected for a third time.[7]

Following the election of Mark Brown as Prime Minister she was appointed Associate Minister of Internal Affairs and Health.[8]

References
  1. Rashneel Kumar (15 June 2018). "Mother, daughter make a clean sweep". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  3. Anneka Brown (10 October 2019). "Te-Hani's lecture on life as a politician". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  4. "Cooks opposition MP confirms defection". RNZ. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  5. "Te-Hani Brown wins Cook Islands by-election". Radio New Zealand. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  6. "Re-elected Cooks MP resigns during petition process". RNZ. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  7. Rashneel Kumar (15 November 2019). "Atiu by-election win a 'huge endorsement of the Government'". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  8. Emmanuel Samoglou and Rashneel Kumar (8 October 2020). "PM takes on 17 portfolios". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 9 October 2020.


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