Tevita Momoedonu

Tevita Momoedonu
Prime Minister of Fiji
In office
14 March 2001 – 16 March 2001
Acting
PresidentRatu Josefa Iloilo
Preceded byLaisenia Qarase
Succeeded byLaisenia Qarase
In office
27 May 2000 – 27 May 2000
Several Minutes
PresidentRatu Sir Kamisese Mara
Preceded byMahendra Chaudhry
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
BornRatu Tevita Momoedonu
(1946-01-13)13 January 1946[1]
Lautoka, Fiji
Died26 November 2020(2020-11-26) (aged 74)
Lautoka, Fiji
Political partyLabour Party
Bei Kai Viti

Ratu Tevita Momoedonu (13 January 1946 – 26 November 2020)[2][3] was a Fijian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Fiji twice – each time extremely briefly. Both appointments were to get around constitutional technicalities; his first term of office – on 27 May 2000 lasted only a few minutes. His second term – from 14 to 16 March 2001 was for two days. He subsequently served his country as Ambassador of Fiji to Japan. Using his chiefly title of "Taukei Sawaieke", he later led pushed for the Yasana of Ba to secede from the Burebasaga and Kubuna Confederacies to form their own fourth confederacy under the Tui Vuda, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who died in 2011.

  1. ^ curriculum vitae Archived 24 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Siteri Sauvakacolo (28 November 2020). "Ratu Tevita passes away". Fiji Times. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Former Fiji PM Ratu Tevita Momoedonu dies". RNZ. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.