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Ratu
Inoke Kubuabola
Leader of the Opposition
In office 28 August 1999 – 3 October 2000
Prime Minister
Mahendra Chaudhry Ratu Tevita Momoedonu
Preceded by
Jai Ram Reddy
Succeeded by
Prem Singh
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 24 July 2009 – 9 September 2016
Prime Minister
Frank Bainimarama
Preceded by
Frank Bainimarama
Succeeded by
Frank Bainimarama
Minister for Immigration, National Security and Defence[1]
In office 9 September 2016 – 20 November 2018
Prime Minister
Frank Bainimarama
Preceded by
Frank Bainimarama (Acting)
Succeeded by
Inia Seruiratu
Personal details
Born
1948 (age 75–76)
Nationality
Fijian
Political party
Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (1991–2006) FijiFirst (2014–present)
RatuInoke Matavasona Kububuabola (born 1948) is a Fijian politician and Cabinet Minister. He is the former leader of the opposition and Minister for Foreign Affairs. Since 11 August 2022, he has been a High Commissioner to New Zealand.
Kubuabola worked as an assistant manager for the New Zealand Insurance Company in Auckland and Suva. From 1975 to 1987 he was secretary of the South Pacific Bible Society.[2] A Fijian nationalist, he was involved in the planning of the 1987 Fijian coups d'état.[3] Following the coup he was appointed Minister for Information in the Military Government, and subsequently served as Minister for Information, Broadcasting, Television and Telecommunication.[2]
Kubuabola was elected to Parliament in the 1992 election as a candidate for the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT) and reappointed to Cabinet as Minister for Youth, Employment Opportunities and Sports.[2] He was re-elected at the 1994 election and was appointed Minister for Regional Development and Multi Ethnic Affairs.[2] In 1996 he was appointed Minister of Works, Infrastructure and Transport.[2]
Following the defeat of the SVT government at the 1999 election and the subsequent resignation of its leader, the defeated Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, Kubuabola became leader of the SVT and Leader of the Opposition. Under the 1997 Constitution of Fiji the Leader of the Opposition chose 8 of the 32 members of the Senate, and Kubuabola sparked controversy in the role by limiting his selection to members of opposition parties.
Following the Fiji coup of 2000 Kubuabola was appointed Minister for Information and Communications in the interim Cabinet formed by Laisenia Qarase.[4] He held this office till September 2001, when he lost his seat in the 2001 election. That year he also resigned the Chairmanship of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council, which he had led for served years, to Sitiveni Rabuka.
^"September 2016".
^ abcde"Speaker profile: Ratu-Inoke Kubuabola". Astana Economic Forum. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
^Lal, Brij (2010). In the Eye of the Storm: Jai Ram Reddy and the Politics of Postcolonial Fiji(PDF). Canberra: ANU ePress. p. 365. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
^"Fiji president reappoints Qarase as PM". The New Zealand Herald. 28 July 2000. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
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