Palusalue Faʻapo II

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Palusalue Faʻapo II
Leader of the Tautua Samoa Party
In office
19 May 2011 – 4 March 2016
DeputyA'eau Peniamina
Preceded byVa'ai Papu Vailupe
Succeeded byOffice vacant
Minister of Communication & Information Technology
In office
2003 – 24 April 2006
Prime MinisterTuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi
Succeeded byMulitalo Siafausa Vui
Minister of Transport
In office
20 March 2001 – 2003
Member of the Samoan Parliament
for Safata
In office
26 April 1996 – 4 March 2016
Preceded byTuiloma Pule Lameko
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born~1956 (age 69–70)
PartyFAST (2020–present)
Other political
affiliations

Afemata Palusalue Faʻapo II (born ~1956)[1] is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. From 2011 to 2016 he was the leader of the opposition Tautua Samoa Party.[2]

Palusalue was first elected to Parliament in 1996.[3] He served as Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Minister of Justice. After being re-elected in 2001, he was appointed to Cabinet, first as Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation,[4] and then as Minister of Communication & Information Technology. After the 2006 election he became associate Minister of Finance.[3][5]

Palusalue left the governing Human Rights Protection Party in March 2008 and joined the opposition as an independent MP.[6] He later became a founding member of the Tautua Samoa Party.[7] As a result, in May 2009 he was one of nine Tautua MPs declared to have resigned their seats under an anti-party hopping law.[8] He was subsequently reinstated after the Supreme Court of Samoa overturned the law and declared the formation of new parties legal.[9]

In January 2010 new anti-party-hopping laws came into force, barring MPs from declaring their support for political parties or organizations with political aims other than the party they were elected for.[10] As a result, along with Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi and Va'ai Papu Vailupe he was deemed to have resigned his seat.[11] He was re-elected in the resulting by-election.[12] In December 2010 he was elected deputy leader of Tautua.[13] He was re-elected in the 2011 election and re-elected deputy leader.[14] Following Va'ai Papu Vailupe's loss of his seat for bribery and treating he became party leader.[15] He lost his seat in the 2016 election.[16]

In 2017 he was conferred with the chiefly title of Afemata.[17]

He contested the 2021 election as a candidate for the Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party[1] but was unsuccessful.[18]

In February 2023, the FAST government appointed Palusalue to serve as Samoa's consul-general in Auckland, New Zealand.[19]

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