Rose Toki-Brown

Vainetutai Rose Toki-Brown is a Cook Islands politician, and Cabinet Minister. In July 2016 she became the Cook Islands' first female Leader of the Opposition.[1][2]

Toki-Brown is the mother of fellow MP Te-Hani Brown.[3] She ran in the 2014 election as a candidate for the Cook Islands Party, defeating her uncle Norman George to win the Teenui-Mapumai seat.[4] An election petition by George was subsequently dismissed.[5] She was appointed Deputy Speaker in October 2014.[6]

In June 2017 Toki-Brown rejoined the Cook Islands Party after being replaced by William (Smiley) Heather as leader of the opposition.[7] While originally planning to run for the CIP in the 2018 election, she became an independent after pressure was put on her over her daughter running for the rival Cook Islands Democratic Party.[8] She was successfully elected, defeating both Democratic and Cook Islands Party candidates.[9] Following the election she was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Health, Justice, Parliamentary Services and Agriculture.[10]

References
  1. Florence Syme-Buchanan (23 July 2016). "Brown to lead the opposition". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. "Cook Islands opposition has new female leader". RNZ International. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  3. Rashneel Kumar (15 June 2018). "Mother, daughter make a clean sweep". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  4. ""Uncle Norman just jealous of my election victory" says Rose Toki-Brown". Radio Australia. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  5. "Two more Cooks petitions dismissed". RNZ Pacific. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  6. Emmanuel Samoglou (14 October 2014). "PM announces key appointments". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  7. Richard Moore (19 June 2017). "Rose goes back to CIP". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  8. Rashneel Kumar (15 June 2018). "Mother, daughter make a clean sweep". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  9. "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. "Brown DPM in new cabinet". Cook Islands News. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.


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