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Samisoni Tikoinasau Speight is a Fijian politician, who held Cabinet office as , to which he was appointed after parliamentary election of May 2006. Previously, he was and from 2005 to 2006. Like many ethnic Fijians, he rarely uses his surname. Tikoinasau was appointed to the Cabinet on 8 April 2005, to replace Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, who resigned following his conviction and imprisonment for his role in the 2000 coup. He also took over Lalabalavu's role as CAMV leader in an interim capacity, pending Lalabalavu's release.

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  • Samisoni Tikoinasau Speight is a Fijian politician, who held Cabinet office as , to which he was appointed after parliamentary election of May 2006. Previously, he was and from 2005 to 2006. Like many ethnic Fijians, he rarely uses his surname. Tikoinasau was appointed to the Cabinet on 8 April 2005, to replace Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, who resigned following his conviction and imprisonment for his role in the 2000 coup. He also took over Lalabalavu's role as CAMV leader in an interim capacity, pending Lalabalavu's release. (en)
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  • Samisoni Tikoinasau Speight is a Fijian politician, who held Cabinet office as , to which he was appointed after parliamentary election of May 2006. Previously, he was and from 2005 to 2006. Like many ethnic Fijians, he rarely uses his surname. Tikoinasau is the son of former Cabinet Minister and the older brother of George Speight, who led a rebellion which toppled the Indo-Fijian-led Chaudhry government in May 2000. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a candidate of the nationalistic Conservative Alliance (CAMV) in a byelection on 21–23 March 2002, to represent the Tailevu North Fijian Communal constituency in the place of his brother, who had been expelled from Parliament the previous December for nonattendance owing to his imprisonment on treason charges. Tikoinasau was appointed to the Cabinet on 8 April 2005, to replace Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, who resigned following his conviction and imprisonment for his role in the 2000 coup. He also took over Lalabalavu's role as CAMV leader in an interim capacity, pending Lalabalavu's release. He was married to Adi Litia Levulevu (d. 1996), the daughter of former Fiji president Josefa Iloilo. His son Henry Speight is a winger with the Brumbies in Australia. (en)
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