Satini Tulaga Manuella is a

Tuvalu Tuvalu ( or ; formerly known as the Ellice Islands) is an island country and microstate in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii and Australia. They lie east-northea ...

an politician. With a background in finance and education, he is, as of 2014, president of the Tuvalu National Private Sector Organisation."New MP elected in Tuvalu"
PINA, 22 September 2014 On 19 September 2014, he stood as a pro-government candidate for

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in a by-election in the

Nanumea Nanumea is the northwesternmost atoll in the Polynesian nation of Tuvalu, a group of nine coral atolls and islands spread over about of the Pacific Ocean just south of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Nanumea is with a popul ...

constituency. Campaigning on the theme of developing "a healthy working relationship between the education and private sectors", so that Tuvaluans could be "educated in areas that will help boost Tuvalu’s economy", he was elected with 65.2% of the vote, and sat as a backbencher in Prime Minister

Enele Sopoaga Enele Sosene Sopoaga PC (born 10 February 1956) is a Tuvaluan diplomat and politician who was Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 2013 to 2019. Sopoaga was elected to Parliament in the 2010 general election. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and M ...

's parliamentary majority. On 10 April 2015 he was appointed the Minister of Health; and served as the minister during the Sopoaga Ministry. He was not re-elected in the 2019 general election.

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Living people Members of the Parliament of Tuvalu People from Nanumea 1958 births Government ministers of Tuvalu {{Tuvalu-politician-stub