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((Short description|Fijian politician (1946–2020)))
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|honorific-prefix	= [[The Right Honourable]] ''[[Ratu]]''
|name			= Tevita Momoedonu  
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|office1		= [[Prime Minister of Fiji]]
|term_start1		= 14 March 2001
|term_end1		= 16 March 2001<br /><small>Acting</small>
|president1		= [[Josefa Iloilo|''Ratu'' Josefa Iloilo]]
|predecessor1		= [[Laisenia Qarase]]
|successor1		= [[Laisenia Qarase]]
|term_start2    = 27 May 2000
|term_end2		= 27 May 2000<br /><small>Several Minutes</small>
|president2		= [[Kamisese Mara|''Ratu'' Sir Kamisese Mara]]
|predecessor2           = [[Mahendra Chaudhry]]
|successor2             = Vacant
|birth_date		= Ratu Tevita Momoedonu<br>((birth date|1946|01|13|df=y))<ref>[https://www.tltb.com.fj/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ratu-tevita-momoedonu.pdf curriculum vitae] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924074324/https://www.tltb.com.fj/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ratu-tevita-momoedonu.pdf |date=24 September 2016 ))</ref>
|birth_place		= [[Lautoka]], Fiji
|death_date		= ((death date and age|2020|11|26|1946|1|13|df=y))
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|party			= [[Fiji Labour Party|Labour Party]]<br>[[Bei Kai Viti]]
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'''''[[Ratu]]''''' '''Tevita Momoedonu''' (13 January 1946 – 26 November 2020)<ref>((cite web |url=https://www.fijitimes.com/ratu-tevita-passes-away/ |title=Ratu Tevita passes away |author=Siteri Sauvakacolo |publisher=Fiji Times |date=28 November 2020 |accessdate=30 November 2020))</ref><ref>((cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/431778/former-fiji-pm-ratu-tevita-momoedonu-dies |title=Former Fiji PM Ratu Tevita Momoedonu dies |publisher=RNZ |date=30 November 2020 |accessdate=30 November 2020))</ref> was a Fijian politician who served as the [[Prime Minister of Fiji|fifth Prime Minister]] of [[Fiji]] twice – each time extremely briefly.  Both appointments were to get around constitutional technicalities; his first term of office – on 27 May 2000 lasted only a few minutes.  His second term – from 14 to 16 March 2001 was for two days.  He subsequently served his country as [[Ambassador of Fiji to Japan]]. Using his chiefly title of "Taukei Sawaieke", he later led pushed for the [[Provinces of Fiji|Yasana]] of [[Ba Province|Ba]] to secede from the [[Burebasaga]] and [[Kubuna|Kubuna Confederacies]] to form their own fourth confederacy under the ''[[Tui Vuda]]'', ''[[Ratu]]'' [[Josefa Iloilo]], who died in 2011.

== First appointment ==
In 1999, Momoedonu [[1999 Fijian general election|had been elected]] on the [[Fiji Labour Party]] (FLP) ticket to represent the [[Vuda (Open Constituency, Fiji)|Vuda]] [[Open constituencies|Open Constituency]] in the [[House of Representatives of Fiji|House of Representatives]], and subsequently appointed to the [[Cabinet of Fiji|Cabinet]].  He was the only minister not present in the [[Parliament of Fiji|Parliament]] building when [[George Speight]] stormed the complex on 19 May 2000, taking Chaudhry and other government members hostage and staging a [[2000 Fijian coup d'état|coup d'état]].  The [[President of Fiji|President]], [[Kamisese Mara|Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara]], wanted to assume emergency powers to deal with the situation, but was unable to do so, because [[1997 Constitution of Fiji|constitutionally]], the President is not allowed to act except on the advice of the Prime Minister – and Prime Minister Chaudhry, being in captivity, was unable to render such advice.  In a move which some legal scholars have questioned as being of doubtful constitutional validity, Mara therefore dismissed Chaudhry and appointed Momoedonu in his place on 27 May, so that Momoedonu could "advise" him to suspend Parliament and assume emergency powers.  Upon tendering the requisite advice, Momoedonu promptly resigned.  The whole procedure had taken only a few minutes.  (The move backfired when, two days later, Mara was himself deposed by the Commander of the Fiji Military Forces, [[Frank Bainimarama|Commodore Frank Bainimarama]]).

== Interim Minister; second appointment as Prime Minister ==

Momoedonu served as [[Minister for Labour (Fiji)|Minister for Labour]] and [[Minister for Industrial Relations (Fiji)|Industrial Relations]] in the interim Cabinet formed by [[Laisenia Qarase]] in the midst of the upheaval that followed the coup.  He held this position until September 2001.

Momoedonu's second appointment as Prime Minister, on 14 March 2001,<ref>((cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/13/fiji.iloilo.01/ |title=Fiji to appoint new prime minister |publisher=CNN |date=14 March 2001 |access-date=6 August 2023))</ref><ref>((cite news |title=Fiji PM sacked by president |work=Sydney Daily Telegraph |page=27 |date=15 March 2001 |via=EBSCOHost))</ref> came in the wake of an [[Court of Appeal of Fiji|Appeal Court]] verdict that the interim government of President [[Josefa Iloilo]] and Prime Minister [[Laisenia Qarase]], both of whom had taken office when the coup had been put down, was unconstitutional, and ordered that the previous government be reinstated.  That would mean reinstating Ratu Mara as president or else convening the [[Great Council of Chiefs]] to elect a new president.  Mara moved to spare the country further constitutional trauma by resigning officially, retroactive to 29 May 2000 (the day on which he had been deposed), thereby validating the Iloilo regime, which was duly affirmed by the Great Council of Chiefs.  The court verdict was also widely interpreted to mean that Mahendra Chaudhry should be reinstated as Prime Minister, but President Iloilo disagreed.  He argued that defections from Chaudhry's [[Fiji Labour Party|Labour Party]] meant that he no longer had majority support in the House of Representatives, and therefore the President was not obliged to appoint him.

Iloilo had apparently decided already that the best way forward for Fiji was to take the question of the country's leadership back to the people, but he could not constitutionally call an early election except on the advice of the Prime Minister – advice that he was sure Chaudhry would refuse to render.  He therefore appointed Momoedonu.  There was a legal argument, albeit a flimsy one, that as the last "lawfully appointed" Prime Minister under the last constitutional President, Ratu Mara, Momoedonu should be reappointed.  Cynics, including former House of Representatives [[Speaker of the House of Representatives of Fiji|Speaker]] [[Tomasi Vakatora]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050703074358/http://members.fortunecity.com/omegatimes/moral_17.htm saw the appointment more as a case of nepotism:] Momoedonu was President Iloilo's nephew.  The appointment, although brief, entitled him to a lifetime pension amounting to 20 percent of the Prime Minister's salary.

Momoedonu rendered his formal advice to President Iloilo to dissolve Parliament and call a general election.  Mission accomplished, Momoedonu resigned the next day, allowing [[Laisenia Qarase]] to resume the office of Prime Minister.  In [[2001 Fijian general election|the ensuing election]], Qarase was confirmed as Prime Minister when his newly formed [[Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua]] won a plurality.  Momoedonu, however, stood as a candidate for the House of Representatives on the [[Bei Kai Viti]] Party ticket, but was defeated.

== Ambassador to Japan ==

In 2002, Momoedonu was appointed Fiji's Ambassador [[Ambassador Extraordinary|Extraordinary]] and [[Ambassador Plenipotentiary|Plenipotentiary]] to Japan, and duly presented his credentials to [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]] [[Akihito of Japan|Akihito]] on 7 October that year.  His term expired in March 2006, and he returned to Fiji.

== Later career ==

The ''[[Fiji Sun]]'' reported on 12 March 2006 that Momoedonu was being considered as a possible leader for the [[Party of National Unity (Fiji)|Party of National Unity]] (PANU), which was reestablished in early 2006 following its deregistration the previous year, and which absorbed the [[People's National Party (Fiji)|People's National Party]] (PNP) and Momoedonu's old BKV in March 2006.  This did not eventuate, however, and he entered [[private sector]] business as Chairman of [[Ba Provincial Holdings, Ltd.]]

((Wikiquote|Tevita Momoedonu))

==References==
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== External links ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050703074358/http://members.fortunecity.com/omegatimes/moral_17.htm Moral Archives (several unsympathetic articles)]

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