| 词条 | Lavenia Padarath |
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Lavenia Padarath (née Lavenia Wainiqolo) is a former Fijian politician. As of 2015, she is President of the Fiji Labour Party. Padarath won the Nausori Naitasiri Open Constituency for the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) in the 1999 parliamentary election. She was subsequently appointed to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry as Minister for Women, Culture, and Social Welfare. Along with many other parliamentarians, she was kidnapped by gunmen led by George Speight and held hostage at the parliamentary complex during the civilian coup d'état of 2000. Padarath lost her seat in the House of Representatives in the general election of 2001, and failed to regain it in the 2006 election, but was appointed to the Senate as one of nine nominees of the Leader of the Opposition. She served in the Senate until it was closed one day after the military coup of 5 December 2006. Personal lifePadarath, an indigenous Fijian, is married to an Indo-Fijian. Her son, Ben Padarath, also contested the 2006 election, but as a candidate of the National Alliance Party of Fiji. Padarath publicly criticized her son for saying that political power should remain in indigenous Fijian hands, saying that such comments were racist and contrary to the way he had been brought up.[1] References1. ^{{cite web|title=Family Feud in Fiji Politics|url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=23125|website=Radio New Zealand News|publisher=Radio New Zealand|accessdate=17 June 2015}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Padarath, Lavenia}}{{Fiji-politician-stub}} 7 : Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|Fiji Labour Party politicians|I-Taukei Fijian members of the House of Representatives (Fiji)|I-Taukei Fijian members of the Senate (Fiji)|Fijian trade unionists|Politicians from Lau Province |
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