page_title: Tetangi Matapo
hierarchical_section_title: Tetangi Matapo
caption_attribution_description: English: Cook Islands MP Tetangi Matapo in 2016
context_page_description: Tetangi Matapo is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.
  Matapo was a teacher and later deputy principal at Mangaia School. She was elected to Parliament in the 2013 Tamarua by-election. In April 2013 she attended the inaugural Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Wellington, New Zealand.
  At the 2014 election, she lost the seat on the night to the Cook Islands Party's Tokorua Pareina, but regained it in an electoral petition. In 2015, she was appointed opposition spokesperson for Education and Internal Affairs. In 2016, she was part of the Cook Islands' delegation to the second Pacific Parliamentary Forum.
  She was re-elected at the 2018 election. Shortly after the election she was sent to the 2018 Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference in Wellington as "interim Deputy Speaker", despite there having been no election for the position.
  In December 2019 she was part of a protest by women MPs to permit the wearing of ei katu in Parliament.
  In February 2020 she was appointed Democratic Party spokesperson for Business, Trade and Investment Board, Education and Justice.
context_section_description: Tetangi Matapo (born c. 1966) is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament.  She is a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.
  Matapo was a teacher and later deputy principal at Mangaia School. She was elected to Parliament in the 2013 Tamarua by-election. In April 2013 she attended the inaugural Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Wellington, New Zealand.
  At the 2014 election, she lost the seat on the night to the Cook Islands Party's Tokorua Pareina, but regained it in an electoral petition. In 2015, she was appointed opposition spokesperson for Education and Internal Affairs. In 2016, she was part of the Cook Islands' delegation to the second Pacific Parliamentary Forum.
  She was re-elected at the 2018 election. Shortly after the election she was sent to the 2018 Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference in Wellington as "interim Deputy Speaker", despite there having been no election for the position.
  In December 2019 she was part of a protest by women MPs to permit the wearing of ei katu (floral crowns) in Parliament.
  In February 2020 she was appointed Democratic Party spokesperson for Business, Trade and Investment Board, Education and Justice.
caption: Tetangi Matapo in 2016
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