Teremoana Tapi Taio is a
Cook Islands
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politician and former
Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the
Cook Islands Democratic Party.
Taio was elected to the
Cook Islands Parliament for the electorate of
Akaoa at the
1999 election. He served in the cabinet of
Robert Woonton, and was responsible for the Finance portfolio following the resignation of
Deputy Prime Minister
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Terepai Maoate from the Cabinet in 2003. He lost his seat at the
2004 election, and did not contest it in
2006 for family reasons.
Taio is managing director of
Taio Shipping. He was appointed a director of the
Cook Islands Investment Corporation in 2003. He is partly of
Norwegian descent.
In September 2010 he resigned from the Cook Islands Investment Corporation board in order to stand for election.
He ran for the seat of Akaoa in the
2010 elections
The following elections occurred in the year 2010.
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* National electoral calendar 2010
* Local electoral calendar 2010
* 2010 United Nations Security Council election
Africa
* 2010 Burkinabé presidential election
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, but was unsuccessful.
References
Members of the Parliament of the Cook Islands
People from Rarotonga
Living people
Democratic Party (Cook Islands) politicians
Government ministers of the Cook Islands
Cook Island businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
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