Vaine Mokoroa | |
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![]() Vaine Mokoroa in 2019 | |
Minister of Justice | |
Assumed office 2 June 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Mark Brown |
Preceded by | Rose Toki-Brown |
Minister of Education | |
Assumed office 4 June 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Henry Puna Mark Brown |
Preceded by | Henry Puna |
Minister of Internal Affairs | |
In office 21 September 2018 – 2 June 2021 | |
Preceded by | Albert Nicholas |
Succeeded by | Rose Toki-Brown |
Minister of Police | |
In office 21 September 2018 – 4 June 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Henry Puna |
Preceded by | Albert Nicholas |
Succeeded by | Henry Puna |
Member of the Cook Islands Parliament for Nikao–Panama | |
Assumed office 14 June 2018 | |
Preceded by | Ngamau Munokoa |
Personal details | |
Born | Atiu, Cook Islands | 28 December 1966
Political party | Cook Islands Party |
Alma mater | University of the South Pacific |
Vaine Makiroa Mokoroa (born 28 December 1966) is a Cook Islands politician and Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Cook Islands Party.
Mokoroa was born in 1966 in Atiu.[1] He has previously worked as a police officer, chief of staff in the office of the Prime Minister, and as acting secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning.[2] He entered parliament in the 2018 elections, winning the seat of Nikao–Panama from Ngamau Munokoa.[3] In September 2018 he was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Police and Internal Affairs, following the sacking of Albert Nicholas.[4][5] In June 2020 he surrendered his police portfolio and was appointed Education Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.[6]
In the Cabinet reshuffle following the appointment of Mark Brown as Prime Minister his position as Education Minister was confirmed, and he retained all his other Cabinet portfolios.[7] A further reshuffle in June 2021 saw him swap his Internal Affairs portfolio for Justice.[8]
He was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election.[9]