Peter Swanepoel

Peter Florentyn Ararano Swanepoel (born December 11, 1940) is a South African-Lunasi politician. He served as president of Lunasia from 1999 to 2006. He was a member of the Labour Party.
Swanepoel was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He moved to Houtstadt in 1955. He entered politics in 1980. In 1997, he became the leader of the Labour Party and 1999 won the parliamentary election. He was nominated by the Labour Party for the 1999 presidential election, which he won aswell, He was re-elected in 2004, but lost his majority in the parliament.
As president, Swanepoel introduced several social reforms and increased Mokgaloan rights. Swanepoel played an important role in the accession of The Enzen to the Isladanic Community of Nations in 2002. Despite, being popular in his first term, his popularity quickly dropped in his second term. Swanepoel and his cabinet members became involved in several scandals. In 2006, he lost support from the Dutch Party and he was forced to hold new elections. Despite his declined popularity, Swanepoel ran for president and lost to Alan Holman in a landslide defeat. 
Swanepoel left the Labour Party in 2008. In 2010, Swanepoel moved to Saaona and adopted the Mokgaloan name Ararano. In 2021, Swanepoel joined the Mokgaloan Vision and endorsed Lucy Kantorua in the October 2021 Lunasi presidential election.
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