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Niue

Niue Tukuitonga (a retired schoolteacher) by a vote of 63 to 51. Such is the nature of politics on this small island, still losing population (now down to approximately 1,750 people). Had only seven people voted differently, Premier Lui would have gained another three-year term in the twenty-member assembly. Lui’s loss of power appears to have resulted from a number of factors. Until the end he remained an oppo- nent of “party politics,” leaving the Niue People’s Party (npp) the only political party on the island. After campaigning for several years the party at last began to make headway in 1999, although it remains far from dominant (its leader, Sani Lakatani, only came third in the “common roll” seats). Nevertheless its much greater visibility and activity in the villages left it with an advantage over the gov- ernment (which, without a formal political party organization, remained a group of “independents”). Under some pressure, Lui sought to assist the campaigns of some of those sup- porting his government, but the result was a neglect of his own constituency race as well as a general failure to communicate effectively either in the villages or through the media. By contrast Lui’s opponent, Mrs http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Niue

Levine, Stephen I.
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 12 (1) – Feb 1, 2001
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Abstract

Tukuitonga (a retired schoolteacher) by a vote of 63 to 51. Such is the nature of politics on this small island, still losing population (now down to approximately 1,750 people). Had only seven people voted differently, Premier Lui would have gained another three-year term in the twenty-member assembly. Lui’s loss of power appears to have resulted from a number of factors. Until the end he remained an oppo- nent of “party politics,” leaving the Niue People’s Party (npp) the only political party on the island. After campaigning for several years the party at last began to make headway in 1999, although it remains far from dominant (its leader, Sani Lakatani, only came third in the “common roll” seats). Nevertheless its much greater visibility and activity in the villages left it with an advantage over the gov- ernment (which, without a formal political party organization, remained a group of “independents”). Under some pressure, Lui sought to assist the campaigns of some of those sup- porting his government, but the result was a neglect of his own constituency race as well as a general failure to communicate effectively either in the villages or through the media. By contrast Lui’s opponent, Mrs

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