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His Excellency The Right Honourable Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara
CF, GCMG, KBE
President of Fiji
In office 16 December 1993 – 29 May 2000 Acting: 16 December 1993 – 18 January 1994
Prime Minister
Sitiveni Rabuka Mahendra Chaudhry Ratu Tevita Momoedonu
Preceded by
Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau
Succeeded by
Frank Bainimarama Head of the Interim Military Government
2nd First Vice-President of Fiji
In office 2 June 1992 – 15 December 1993
Serving with Ratu Sir Josaia Tavaiqia Second Vice-President of Fiji
President
Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau
Prime Minister
Sitiveni Rabuka
Preceded by
Ratu Sir Josaia Tavaiqia
Succeeded by
Ratu Sir Josaia Tavaiqia
4th Leader of the Opposition (Fiji)
In office 13 April 1987 – 14 May 1987
Governor General
Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau
Preceded by
Harish Sharma
Succeeded by
Vacant
1st Prime Minister of Fiji
In office 10 October 1970 – 13 April 1987
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Governors General
Sir Robert Sidney Foster Ratu Sir George Cakobau Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau
Deputy
Edward Cakobau Penaia Ganilau David Toganivalu Mosese Qionibaravi
Ro Lady Lala Mara (nee Tuisawau) 9 September 1950 – 18 April 2004 (his death)
Children
Ateca Ganilau
Koila Nailatikau
Asenaca Kakua
Finau Mara
Joji Tuisawau
Litia Cakobau
Elenoa Tuilau
Tevita Mara
Parents
Tevita Uluilakeba III (father)
Lusiana Qolikoro (mother)
Alma mater
University of Otago London School of Economics Wadham College, Oxford
Profession
Economist
RatuSir Kamisese Mara, CF, GCMG, KBE (6 May 1920 – 18 April 2004) was a Fijian politician, who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992. He subsequently served as president from 1993 to 2000.
Ratu Sir KamiseseMara, CF, GCMG, KBE (6 May 1920 – 18 April 2004) was a Fijian politician, who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji...
Ratu Sir KamiseseMara was appointed Fiji's first prime minister on 10 October 1970, when Fiji attained its independence from Britain. Mara previously...
interim administration, headed by Ganilau as President and Ratu Sir KamiseseMara as Prime Minister, but remained Commander of the Army and Minister of...
system of government in 1967, with Ratu KamiseseMara as the first Chief Minister. Ongoing negotiations between Mara and Sidiq Koya, who had taken over the...
system of government in 1967, with Ratu KamiseseMara as the first Chief Minister. Ongoing negotiations between Mara and Sidiq Koya, who had taken over the...
making him the second-longest serving Prime Minister of Fiji after KamiseseMara. He was succeeded by the leader of the 1987 Fijian Coups d'etat, Sitiveni...
system of government in 1967, with Ratu KamiseseMara as the first Chief Minister. Ongoing negotiations between Mara and Sidiq Koya, who had taken over the...
2004) was a Fijian chief, who was better known as the widow of Ratu Sir KamiseseMara, modern Fiji's founding father who served for many years as Prime Minister...
known as the eldest son of former Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir KamiseseMara. Since December 2001, he held the official position of Roving Ambassador...
the Alliance Party, thereby ending the twenty-year reign of Ratu Sir KamiseseMara, who, first as Chief Minister and subsequently as Prime Minister, had...
duties, he and his ministers were sacked by President Ratu Sir KamiseseMara on 27 May; Mara intended to assume emergency powers himself but was himself...
system of government in 1967, with Ratu KamiseseMara as the first Chief Minister. Ongoing negotiations between Mara and Sidiq Koya, who had taken over the...
the President of Fiji. Arieta Koila Josephine Mara was born in 1953. Her father, Ratu Sir KamiseseMara (1920–2004), was Tui Nayau (Paramount Chief of...
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examples include the late Ratu Sir KamiseseMara, Fiji's longtime Prime Minister and President, whose children are surnamed Mara, though it was his given name...
and father of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba III [the father of Ratu Sir KamiseseMara] Ratu Mara Kapaiwai of Bau was born in 1815, son of Ratu Vuibureta and Adi...
Patel's arch-rival, the Lauan chief Ratu KamiseseMara was appointed Chief Minister on 20 September. Mara's Alliance Party was a coalition of indigenous...
was appointed. Their report was presented to the President Ratu Sir KamiseseMara on 6 September 1996. The report was subsequently tabled in Parliament...
1982, but fell short of ousting the longtime Prime Minister Ratu Sir KamiseseMara, and was subsequently deposed as party leader in favour of Koya in 1983...
the ethnic Fijian vote, the ruling Alliance Party of Prime Minister KamiseseMara suffered a narrow defeat. Although the Alliance Party received the most...
resigned in 1980 under pressure from Fiji's first Prime Minister, Ratu Sir KamiseseMara,[citation needed] Tuivaga was appointed Chief Justice by the Governor-General...
a landslide win for the Alliance Party (Fiji) led by Prime Minister KamiseseMara, which won 36 seats out of 52. It was aided by a split in the main opposition...
Sir KamiseseMara, to be buried on home island today". Radio New Zealand International. 2 May 2004. Retrieved 15 October 2011. "Ratu Sir KamiseseMara –...
result was a landslide for the Alliance Party of the Prime Minister, KamiseseMara, which won 33 of the 52 seats, and surprised many observers by capturing...
over most of his day-to-day functions to the vice-president, Ratu Sir KamiseseMara, in 1992. He remained the official President until he died. Ratu Sir...
1977. Fiji became independent on 10 October 1970 with KamiseseMara as the first prime minister. Mara had previously been Chief Minister of Fiji. Reference...
presented the Instruments of Independence to Prime Minister Ratu Sir KamiseseMara on 10 October 1970 at a massive gathering at Albert Park in Suva. In...
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