The Boutokaan Kiribati Moa Party (BKM) was a political party in Kiribati from the merger of the Kiribati First Party and

Boutokaan te Koaua Pillars of Truth (; BK or BTK) was a political party in Kiribati, until 2020 when it merged with the Kiribati First Party to create the Boutokaan Kiribati Moa Party. The party was created through a split in the National Progressive Party, ...

in 2020.

History

The party was established in May 2020, after the merger of the Pillars of Truth with the Kiribati First Party of

Banuera Berina Banuera Berina (born 3 November 1962 in Beru) is a lawyer and a politician from Kiribati, representing Kuria in the House of Assembly. He was the opposition candidate in the 2020 Kiribati presidential election. Berina was a private lawyer sin ...

and twelve other MPs which left the

Tobwaan Kiribati Party The Tobwaan Kiribati Party (, TKP) is a political party in Kiribati. History The party was established in January 2016 as a merger of the Maurin Kiribati Party and the United Coalition Party. The two parties had won 19 of the 44 elected seats i ...

following the government's decision to cut diplomatic ties with

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in favor of closer relations with

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. On 22 May 2020, at the first meeting of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu, BKM nominated Banuera Berina as a candidate for the Beretitenti

election An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative d ...

. Banuera was unsuccessful at the election, and the party shortly thereafter dissolved, with many of the members going on to form the Kamanoan Kiribati Party in August 2020.

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