Mayor Of Wellington City
The Mayor of Wellington is the head of the municipal government of Wellington, the City of Wellington. The mayor presides over the Wellington City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation. The current mayor is Tory Whanau, 2022 Wellington City mayoral election, elected in October 2022 for a three-year-term. Whanau, a member of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, Green Party who ran as an independent, won the 2022 Wellington City mayoral election, 2022 Wellington mayoral election in a landslide. She will be inaugurated within the same month. Whanau is the first indigenous person, and therefore the first Māori woman, to ascend to the Wellington mayoralty. History The development of local government in Wellington was erratic. The first attempt to establish governmental institutions, the so-called "Republicanism in New Zealand#19th century, Wellington Republic", was short-lived and based on rules written by ...
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Tory Whanau
Tory Awatere Whanau (born 1983) is a New Zealand politician. She was elected mayor of Wellington at the 2022 election. Previously she served as the parliamentary chief of staff for the Green Party. Whanau is the first person of Māori descent to be mayor of Wellington. Early life and career Whanau has ancestors from Pakakohi and Ngāruahine. She was born in Porirua in 1983 and grew up in Cannons Creek, Porirua. Whanau moved with her family to Patea at the age of 8, later attending New Plymouth Girls' High School. Whanau moved to Wellington as an adult to study, and in 2003 won $1.39 million in a Lotto draw, which she used to pay off her parents' mortgage, support her family, and travel. Whanau graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington in 2006, and began working in the financial sector. In 2012, she graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Administration in Communication Management from Massey University. Political career ...
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