- Iakoba Italeli
Iakoba Italeli is a political figure and government minister from the
Pacific nation ofTuvalu .Political office
Since
2006 he has been Minister of Education and Sports, and Health, in the government of thePrime Minister of Tuvalu ,Apisai Ielemia .Constituency background
Italeli was elected to represent Nui in the
Parliament of Tuvalu on a non-partisan basis; this lack of alignment is not unusual in thepolitics of Tuvalu ; unusually for Tuvalu, Italeli represents a constituency wheretrilingualism is a feature, since many inhabitants of Nui originate fromKiribati , and thus speak Gilbertese, in addition to Tuvaluan and English, the fluency of which varies among local people.ee also
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Politics of Tuvalu External links
* http://www.tuvalu-news.tv/archives/2006/08/apisai_ielemia_new_prime_minis.html
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