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26 April - Australian-born High Court justice David Lambourne is ordered deported from Kiribati following a long-running legal battle with the latter's government. [1] He voluntarily leaves the country on 16 May. [2] 14 August - 2024 Kiribati parliamentary election (first round): Kiribati islanders vote for the 45 members of the House of ...
A total of 114 people ran in the election, of which 18 were women. [9] Out of the 44 seats to be contested, four candidates were declared elected unopposed at the close of nominations on 24 July 2024 - Tinian Reiher and Alexander Teabo from Butaritari, Bootii Nauan from South Tabiteuea and Tekeeua Tarati from Tamana. [9]
On 30 September 2024 the manifestos of three of the candidates were published. [14] [15] It was later reported that candidate Riteta Iorome had withdrawn.[16]Opposition figures, including former president Ieremia Tabai, called for a boycott of the election, in protest at the exclusion of opposition candidates. [17]
Elections in Kiribati are held every 4 years or, earlier, after a no confidence vote. They consist in the national elections of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu from whom is then elected the Beretitenti, shortly after, by the people. They are also local elections of the Councils (one council in each inhabited island and 3 councils in Tarawa).
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Kiribati. 20 January – The country announces a curfew and mandatory face masks after 36 passengers on a charter flight from Fiji test positive for COVID-19 upon arrival. The plane was the first international commercial flight to land in the country since March 2020. Kiribati reopened its borders on January 10. [1]
By 2022, he was the Senior Assistant Secretary in the MCIA. [4] In 2024, Kaotitaake ran for election to the House of Assembly to represent Tabuaeran, and won one of two seats (along with Matanga Aran), receiving 665 votes. [5] [6] He ran as a member of the Tobwaan Kiribati Party (TKP) which won a supermajority in the legislature. [7]
Sir John Muria was the Chief Justice of Kiribati until his replacement by Bill Hastings in August 2021, after a 8 months vacancy. On 30 June 2022, Hastings was abruptly suspended from his office during the 2022 Kiribati constitutional crisis.
Kiribati (/ ˈ k ɪr ɪ b æ s / ⓘ KIRR-i-bass, [10] Gilbertese:), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), [11] [12] [3] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa atoll.