Prime Minister of Tuvalu
Sopoanga was elected Prime Minister of Tuvalu by MPs on 2 August 2002 after the general election in which previous prime minister Koloa Talake lost his seat. In Tuvalu the Prime Minister is also the Foreign Minister.
There are no political parties in Tuvalu. Sapoanga had a shifting alliance of MPs who supported him, and there was also an opposition group against him. Both Sapoanga's group and the opposition group were plagued by defections. On 26 August 2004, while one of the 15 Members of Parliament was sick in New Zealand and another had defected from Sapoanga's group, the opposition finally deposed Sapoanga in a no confidence vote, 8-6.
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