Jim Marurai

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Jim Marurai (9 July 1947 – November 2020) was a Cook Islands politician who served as Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from 2004 to 2010. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Personal lifeEdit

Marurai was born in Ivirua, Mangaia.<ref name="obit"/><ref name=parlbio>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He attended Ivirua and Oneroa Primary school and then Tereora College on Rarotonga and Napier Boys' High School in New Zealand. He later studied to be a teacher at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.<ref name=parlbio/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Marurai's wife, Tuaine Marurai, died on 14 September 2005 in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 56 after suffering from cancer. She was buried on her home island of Mangaia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In March 2020 Marurai went missing from his home but was found after two days.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He died in the first week of November 2020 in his home in Ivirua.<ref name="obit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Political careerEdit

Marurai was first elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1994.<ref name=parlbio/> He served as an opposition backbencher for his first term, and joined Norman George in splitting from the Democrats to form the New Alliance Party.<ref name=tcp99>Template:Cite journal</ref> Following the 1999 election he was appointed Minister of Education in the coalition Cabinets of Geoffrey Henry<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Joe Williams.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He retained the portfolio under both succeeding Prime Ministers, Terepai Maoate<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Robert Woonton.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Prime ministerEdit

Marurai was re-elected at the 2004 election. When Prime Minister Robert Woonton was expelled from the Democratic party for forming a coalition with the Cook Islands Party, Marurai joined him in the newly formed Demo Party Tumu (later known as Cook Islands First).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> When an electoral petition found Woonton's seat was a dead tie, Woonton resigned, and Marurai was elected Prime Minister.<ref name="pmannounce">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Initially he governed in coalition with the Cook Islands Party as part of a power-sharing deal which would see CIP leader Geoffrey Henry become Prime Minister after two years,<ref name="pmannounce"/> but in August 2005 the agreement broke down and Marurai formed a new coalition with the Democrats.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Terepai Maoate became Deputy Prime Minister again, and a month later the remaining CIP Cabinet Ministers were sacked and replaced by Democrats.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In October 2005 Marurai suspended Police Minister Peri Vaevae Pare from Cabinet over an allegation of wrongful use of public funds;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Pare was subsequently asked to resign after he was convicted in January 2006.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In March 2006 two government MP's crossed the floor and sided with the opposition in an unsuccessful plot to bring down the government.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The High Commissioner to New Zealand, former prime minister Rober Woonton, was sacked for his involvement in the plot.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10371398">Template:Cite news</ref> The resulting deadlock in Parliament was broken when Environment Minister Teina Bishop resigned and joined the opposition<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and the Cook Islands Party won the 2006 Matavera by-election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> To avoid a confidence vote, Marurai dissolved Parliament and called a snap election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Democratic Party won the resulting 2006 election<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and agreed to back Marurai as Prime Minister again.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Shortly after the election his government pushed a controversial Media Standards Bill to regulate the media.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2007 Marurai attended the 8th Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders in Washington, D.C., and expressed disappointment with the lack of commitments by the United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In August 2007 he hosted New Zealand Governor-General Anand Satyanand,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in October he made a state visit to China.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Marurai's coalition came under strain in early 2008, with an outbreak of bickering and calls for Ministers to be sacked.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In late 2008 Foreign Minister Wilkie Rasmussen publicly called for both Marurai and his deputy Maoate to step down.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In July 2009 Rasmussen was sacked for plotting with the opposition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In December, a million dollar legal settlement from a failed bid to buy the Toa fuel tank farm led to the sacking of Maoate and a walkout of Democrats from Cabinet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Marurai was subsequently expelled from the Democratic Party.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In January 2010, with both the Democrats and the Cook Islands Party opposed to his premiership,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Marurai announced that he would not be "calling parliament for at least several months" as no sitting was required until it was necessary to pass a budget.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He later announced that he had no intention of calling Parliament until September.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Marurai was readmitted to the Democratic party at a party conference in June 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He subsequently announced that he would not continue as Prime Minister if the Democratic Party won the 2010 election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Marurai was re-elected to his Ivirua seat in the 2010 elections, but his party was ousted.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He resigned as Prime Minister on 29 November 2010,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but continued to serve as a backbench MP.

Despite saying that the 2010 term would be his last, Marurai stood again for Ivirua in the 2014 election and was elected unopposed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He resigned for health reasons in 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The subsequent 2017 Ivirua by-election was won by Tony Armstrong.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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