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Tevita Momoedonu | |
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Prime Minister of Fiji | |
In office 14 March 2001 – 16 March 2001 Acting | |
President | Ratu Josefa Iloilo |
Preceded by | Laisenia Qarase |
Succeeded by | Laisenia Qarase |
In office 27 May 2000 – 27 May 2000 Several Minutes | |
President | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara |
Preceded by | Mahendra Chaudhry |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Personal details | |
Born | Ratu Tevita Momoedonu 13 January 1946[1] Lautoka, Fiji |
Died | 26 November 2020 Lautoka, Fiji | (aged 74)
Political party | Labour 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.