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Protestant in a religiously divided country. He also received the largest share of the union vote. The youngest candidate of the election, Tabai was only 27 years old when he took the office; although elder status was a significant qualifier in Kiribati, voters prioritised his understanding of government. Tabai later said that his university education, a rarity among the Gilbertese people at the time, gave him an electoral advantage.
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no confidence, but it failed with 15 supporting and 19 opposing. Tabai signed the agreement in October 1985. Once it was in place, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States began pouring money into the region through financial support and rival fishing rights agreements. The Soviet agreement was not renewed, as Kiribati and the Soviet Union were unable to agree on terms.
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with the needs of the outer islands and their people. Through his campaigning, he created the impression that Ratieta was ignoring the nation's self-governance and represented a continuation of colonial leadership. After the election, Tabai felt that local issues determined elections more than the national issues that he considered only relevant to
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government and putting it to a new vote. Tabai's slim majority failed him, and the bill was defeated with 15 voting in support and 20 voting in opposition, triggering new elections. While his government was dissolved, Tabai's role as head of government was taken over by the Council of State, which included the
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decision as a means for Kiribati to be self-sufficient and forgo British financial support, saying that fish were the only major resource the nation had. He rebutted fears that this was the first step in building a Soviet land base in Kiribati. The domestic political dispute fell along religious lines, as the
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party. Tabai has spoken in favour of including women in politics. He said that the nation should encourage smaller families of just two or three children in 2014 to address the nation's growing population, arguing that it was a necessary measure to prevent unemployment and to better serve women's and
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and confirming that a license was not necessary, they aired a test broadcast with music. The government ordered that it cease operations shortly after, and the police opened an investigation for broadcasting without a license and for constructing a radio antennae without authorisation. The government
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Tabai went into his next term without a majority in the House of Assembly. His government introduced a bill in December to correct a salary discrepancy for six statutory officers, but the opposition challenged it as a means to attack Tabai politically. Tabai responded by tying it to confidence in his
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Part of Tabai's image was based on his rejection of elitism and protocol; the meetings he held on the outer islands were informal, he often rode the bus, and he was known to ride his bicycle to the shops without a shirt or shoes. Tabai was one of several Pacific leaders of his generation to be shaped
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when was 11 years old, and he was chosen for a scholarship sponsored by the government of New Zealand to continue his schooling in the country. The change was difficult for him, where he was separated from his family and poorer than the other students, but he credited the experience with teaching him
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condemned the agreement and rallied Catholics against it as a deal with a godless nation, while Protestants generally supported it. By August, the fishing agreement was signed and the domestic backlash intensified. After Tabai rejected proposals for a referendum, the opposition presented a motion of
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Without a majority in the House of Assembly, Tabai depended on an alliance with the independent assemblymen. Finding that he did not have enough support to effectively control parliament, he removed three of his ministers in July 1987 and replaced them with former supporters who had defected to the
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and Jill Cottrell described Tabai's presidency as "quieter" than the neighbouring Pacific leaders who dominated their nations' politics. While president, Tabai continued a practice of climbing a 10-metre-tall coconut tree twice each day to fetch coconut milk, which he said was more economical than
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at the expense of the outer islands and its decision to create a defence force. He attracted support through his performances in broadcasts of parliamentary debates and by visiting many of the outer islands. The primary theme of Tabai's campaign was that the Ratieta administration was out of touch
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When the House of Assembly approved a constitutional amendment to establish a popularly elected chief minister, Tabai and three of his allies competed with Ratieta, preventing Ratieta from qualifying for the four-candidate ballot. Accepting that any of them would make an agreeable chief minister,
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for "service to Australian-Pacific Islands countries relations, particularly as Secretary-General to the South Pacific Forum". Tabai's tenure as Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum ended in 1998. Given the difficulty of getting a job in Kiribati, he decided to return to politics as a
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Tabai incited condemnation from Western nations and neighbouring island nations in March 1985, when he began negotiations with the Soviet Union over fishing rights. In exchange for US$ 1.5 million, he gave Soviet trawlers access to Kiribati's fishing zones for one year. Tabai justified the
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Tabai carefully balanced his ministry picks when organising his government, ensuring that there was representation for the north, central, and south regions, for both Catholics and Protestants, and for unions. He chose Teannaki as his Vice-President. As chief minister, Tabai was responsible for
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was held on 17 March 1978, and Tabai won with 55.6% of the vote. Like all of the candidates, he received strong support from the district he represented. The more central location of his district mitigated North–South polarisation, and he received one third of the Catholic vote despite being a
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With an independent nation, Tabai considered it essential that his government could inform the people how the government worked and to get them accustomed to democracy. He was faced with managing an incredibly poor economy between several distant islands, dependent on a foreign nation for its
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only made the decision to help his government win the next election. Tabai opposed the country's withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum in 2022, criticising the government for making the decision without consulting members of parliament or the public. He protested the deportation of the
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As negotiations dragged into October and November, Tabai declared that he would not waver in his opposition to an autonomous Banaba, saying that the Gilbert Islands had the "absolute right to proceed to independence with its territorial integrity intact". He argued this point during the
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filed a legal challenge, saying that Tabai's elections in 1978, 1982, and 1983 meant that Tabai was term-limited. It was determined that the 1978 election was for a colonial position and it did not count against his term limit. Tabai then won re-election. He was term-limited
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children's health. He later said that encouraging smaller families would help manage challenges to liveability caused by climate change. Along with the rest of the opposition, Tabai opposed the shift of Kiribati's foreign policy to favour of China in 2019, arguing that
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refused them when they requested a license, and they received fines of $ A35 each on 8 December 1999 after pleading guilty to importing and operating radio equipment without authorisation. While he was working on creating a radio station, Tabai founded a newspaper, the
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Tabai returned home to the Gilbert Islands in 1973. He was one of the only people in the country to have a degree in Tarawa, allowing him to get a job at the Ministry of Finance. He worked there for one year before switching to politics. He married a woman from the
706:. He received the position, becoming Secretary-General on 31 January 1992. Going into the new role, he supported consolidation for the Pacific Islands Forum in contrast to the expansion of the previous decade. Tabai received the highest honour of Kiribati, the 477:, and American claims in the region. Tabai believed that Australia and New Zealand would be necessary allies after independence, and he criticized them for giving disproportionate aid to the Pacific nations that they had previously held as territories. 611:
was held on 12 and 19 January 1983. and it brought Tabai a net increase of two supporters in the House of Assembly, bringing him a majority with 19 of 32 assemblymen. Tabai and Teannaki were again nominated for the ballot in the
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approached, arguing that Tabai's tenure as chief minister counted as a presidential term, which would mean he had reached his three-term limit and would be ineligible to run again. The High Court ruled that Tong had no
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negotiating the independence of Kiribati. He travelled to London and Washington D.C. in June 1978, leading a delegation that included two ministers, two expatriate civil servants, and two advisers from the
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had been sidelined. It alleged that Tabai failed to apply for reappointment, giving Fiji a false impression that it could submit a candidate. In May 1996, he was appointed an Honorary Officer of the
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Tabai's efforts to promote development and quality of life in the outer islands through the construction of schools and government administration proved unsuccessful. Constitutional law professors
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of the United Kingdom, it brought changes to the system that Tabai credited with maintaining the country's stability over the following years, such as an executive president with term limits.
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industry, fearing that the small island nation could be overwhelmed by a surge of wealthy tourists. He instead proposed that they wait "50 or 100 years before talking about such a subject".
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to address the new constitution and the Banaba issue, further delaying independence. Kiribati achieved independence on 12 July 1979, and Tabai's position of chief minister was renamed
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shortly after becoming president, where he was the youngest world leader to ever attend a Commonwealth meeting. As president, the United Kingdom granted him an honorary
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in March and April became a competition between Tabai's government and the unionists. Of Tabai's nineteen allies in parliament, seven lost their re-election campaigns.
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Tabai was selected as the chancellor of the University of the South Pacific in 1991, and rumours spread that he was seeking the position of Secretary-General of the
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to request an injunction against Tabai, as candidates had not yet been nominated for the ballot and Tong was therefore not an electoral opponent of Tabai. In the
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After attending university in New Zealand, Tabai worked in the Ministry of Finance for a year before deciding to enter politics. He was elected to the
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took place on 4 May. Tabai's allies in the House of Assembly gained enough support from independent members to put Tabai and former Vice-President
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in 1992, holding the office until 1998. He then returned to parliamentary politics. Tabai founded two media outlets over the next few years: the
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Tabai's selection for reappointment as Secretary-General in 1994 drew backlash from the Fijian government, which felt that its own candidate
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Tabai planned to start a radio station so that the government would not have a monopoly on news, hoping to have it running before the
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In his first year as Secretary-General, Tabai became the first representative of the Pacific Islands Forum to be invited to the
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funding. Financial independence became a core ideal motivating the policies of Tabai's government. He enacted a loose policy of
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in particular having a strong influence on him. He graduated in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in commerce and administration.
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newspaper, which was the country's first independently-owned outlet, and a radio station. As an assemblyman, he has opposed
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from 1967 to 1968. Tabai watched the politicians of New Zealand while he was in the country, with Prime Minister
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buying soft drinks. He considered this a possible career should he fail to be re-elected. Tabai attended the
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with limited spending and moderate privatisation, though he did not enact any spending cuts or tax reform.
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in Tabai's government, but it failed with 11 votes in favour of the motion and 22 votes against it. The
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on the ballot, while the unionists aligned with Ratieta's allies to nominate him along with unionist
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agreed not to campaign around the nation as they were already well-known relative to the other two.
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Tabai led an active campaign against the Ratieta administration, critical of the its focus on
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One of the key conflicts of Tabai's presidency began in 1980 when the general workers union
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led a strike. It turned violent, and hundreds of workers lost their jobs. One assemblyman,
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from 1979 to 1991. He previously served in the equivalent role, chief minister, under the
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in 2024, alleging that it was intended to punish Lambourne's wife, opposition leader
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movement. His habit of taking his son fishing and his willingness to harvest his own
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in 1985, triggering both domestic and international protest. He ran for re-election
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Tabai successfully ran for re-election to his seat in the House of Assembly in the
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and became the leader of the opposition. Tabai defeated the incumbent
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Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
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in November and December. Although the constitution was based on the
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and spoken in favour of smaller family sizes to limit the effects of
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Heads of State in the Pacific: A Legal and Constitutional Analysis
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Beginning his political career, Tabai adopted the politics of
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Tabai agreed to an international commission in May 1979 in
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As a member of the opposition, Tabai was aligned with the
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Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
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President of Kiribati from 1979 to 1982 and 1983 to 1991
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands
National Progressive Party
Boutokaan te Koaua
Alma mater
Victoria University of Wellington
GCMG
AO
I-Kiribati
president of Kiribati
colonial government
House of Assembly
1998
Nonouti
in 2024
House of Assembly
1974
Naboua Ratieta
1978 election
1982
motion of no confidence
the resulting 1983 election
Soviet Union
in 1987

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