• Vaʻai Kolone (11 November 1911 – 20 April 2001) was the fourth prime minister of Samoa and a founder of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) in Samoa...
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  • Kolone may refer to: Kolone (Messenia), a town of ancient Messenia, Greece Jeremiah Kolone (born 1994), Samoan-American football player Va'ai Kolone (1911...
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    decades thereafter, leading every government until their defeat in 2021. Va'ai Kolone and Tofilau Eti Alesana co-founded the party in May 1979 in opposition...
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  • Party. Asiata was the son of former Prime Minister Va'ai Kolone and the brother of Tautua Samoa MP Va'ai Papu Vailupe. He worked as a barrister in Samoa...
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  • Heather-Latu Mata'afa Iosefo Tuala Ainiu Iusitino Luagalau Levaula Kamu Va'ai Kolone Seui Laau Winnie Laban Tuiloma Pule Lameko Malietoa Laupepa Aifili Paulo...
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    April 1963 Prime Minister See list Mulinu’u II Lealofi IV Tupuola Efi Va'ai Kolone Tofilau Eti Alesana Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi Preceded by Office...
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    is the village of Vaisala whose chief Va'ai Kolone became the Prime Minister of Samoa twice in the 1980s. Kolone also founded the Human Rights Protection...
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  • villages of Auala and Asau. A significant family from Vaisala is the Va'ai family. Va'ai Kolone, a matai, was a Member of Parliament of the Vaisala area who became...
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    31 December 1982 O le Ao O le Malo Malietoa Tanumafili II Preceded by Va'ai Kolone Succeeded by Tofilau Eti Alesana In office 24 March 1976 – 13 April 1982...
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    to demand greater rights for farmers. One of the founding members was Va'ai Kolone - a famous farmer turned politician from the rural Savai'i constituency...
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    to form a government after three independents voted for its leader, Va'ai Kolone, in the vote for Prime Minister. The Legislative Assembly consisted of...
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  • former Prime Minister Vaʻai Kolone, who co-founded the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP). His younger brother Asiata Sale'imoa Va'ai was leader of the...
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  • defeating future Prime Minister Va'ai Kolone by six votes. He did not contest the 1967 elections, and was succeeded by Kolone. W. Samoa's New Assembly Now...
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  • a member of the FAST Party. He is a nephew of former Prime Minister Vaʻai Kolone. Lautimuia is from the villages of Magiagi and Vaisala and trained as...
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    1979 (7th) 24 March 1976 13 April 1982 6 years, 20 days Independent 4 Vaʻai Kolone (1911–2001) 1982 (8th) 13 April 1982 18 September 1982 158 days HRPP...
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    Malietoa Tanumafili II Deputy Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi Preceded by Va'ai Kolone Succeeded by Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi In office 31 December 1982 –...
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  • Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof). Va'ai Kolone, 89, Prime Minister of Samoa. Maurice Lauré, 83, French civil servant...
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  • Corporation general manager and nephew of former prime minister Vaʻai Kolone, Lautimuia Uelese Vaʻai of the governing FAST party and Samau Leatigagaeono Timani...
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    vote against the budget of then-Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana. Va'ai Kolone became Prime Minister.: 193  While apparently retaining a majority after...
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  • 20 – Ilie Verdeț, 51st prime minister of Romania (b. 1925) April 20 – Va'ai Kolone, Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1911) April 29 – Barend Biesheuvel, Prime...
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    March, Va'ai Kolone resigned from the party. On 9 March the Legislative Assembly elected Alesana Prime Minister; he was the only candidate after Kolone declined...
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    Vaimauga West Patu Afa'ese Matatauali'itia Afa Lesa Vaisigano No. 1 Va'ai Kolone Vaisigano No. 2 Togamaga Tafito Source: Samoa Election Results Database...
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    Lenui Avamagalo Vaimauga West Patu Afa'ese Samau Timani Vaisigano No. 1 Va'ai Kolone Replaced by Masoe Filisi in 1993 Vaisigano No. 2 Seve Ropati Source:...
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    of votes of the Coalition of the Christian Democratic Party and the Va'ai Kolone Group, it won one fewer seat. However, on the day of the election of...
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    Protection Party's return to power after the coalition government of Vaʻai Kolone and Tupua. For a while he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Finance...
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  • appointment to the cabinet he had voted for Efi and against his brother Va'ai Kolone in the vote for Prime Minister, which Efi won by a single vote. He died...
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    to elect Va'ai Kolone as Prime Minister won a majority of seats, Tupuola Efi was re-elected as Prime Minister on 28 March, defeating Kolone by 24 votes...
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  • Vaʻai Kolone, Prime minister (1982) Tui Ātua Tupua Tamasese Efi, Prime minister (1982) Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime minister (1982–1985) Vaʻai Kolone,...
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    1985 he joined ten other HRPP members in crossing the floor to support Vaʻai Kolone as Prime Minister. He was re-elected in the 1988 election, but subsequently...
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    district hospital, police station, post office and court houses in Tuasivi. Vaʻai Kolone, a matai and businessman from Vaisala, at the west end of the island...
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