"We need to be united" says Tonga's elected PM Featured
Prime Minister-designate Dr. Pohiva Tui'onetoa
5 October, 2019. Tonga's Prime Minister-designate, Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa, says it's important for the country to develop a spirit of co-operation and reconciliation.
Mr Tu'i'onetoa was elected by Parliament last week, following the death of 'Akilisi Pohiva who led the country for almost 5 years..
The five year long Pohiva administration has been marked by tension between the government and the nobility, but Mr Tu'i'onetoa said he wanted to end that rift and had included three nobles in his Cabinet.
He said an attitude of forgive and forget would allow the government to better develop the country.
"Of course, we still have differences but when it's coupled with the spirit of disharmony and not one to reconcile and talk to each other, that will eventually damage the whole country.
"We need to be united, with a good spirit and then along the way we can find a better solution."
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SPOT ON SPENCER W. FOLAU...Our new PM Hon. Tu'i'onetoa wants the corruptions, nepotism, thefts of public funds and goods, and gross misuse of political power by PTOA party FORGIVEN? Government properties and youths' opportunities are squandered selfishly by previous PTOA government to be forgiven?????? No way, this is not a theological institution to be asking for forgiveness and be done like asking God to forgive one's sins.
Tonga is a Constitutional Monarchy and country of "law and order." What was done wrong against the law must be punished, and restitution to Government made by guilty parties.
Many so-called "Reverends" are encouraging corruptions and misuse of political power. The public cannot suffer under the corruptions, nepotism, and misuse of power by the 'Akilisi Pohiva regime. -
PM TU'I'ONETOA CANNOT BRIBE HIS WAY INTO SUCCESS...appointing 3 nobles to the Cabinet is offering a political "olive branch" to appease the opposition party while continuing the PTOA Democrats' no growth, nepotism, corruption, and power-grab agendas.
The Pohiva Regime had the majority votes in Parliament but did all the wrong things for the wrong reasons. A strong opposition is necessary to force the government to do the right things for the right reasons in the interest of the public.
We need strong Tongan statesmen in Parliament to move the country forward economically. Too many are hiding behind their religious affiliations while the public remains poor with no jobs, no career, no land, and no representation in government. -
PM what is to forgive? And what is to reconcile? What are the list of things to forgive and the list of things to reconcile?
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The call by the new PM elect Rev. Dr Pohiva Tui'onetoa for parliament in particular and the whole of Tonga in general to be united in the face of differences is indeed a good sign for a better Tonga. This rings true of the common saying, namely, unity in diversity and, conversely, diversity in unity. By this, reference is made to the fact that it is in our differences that we are united. A truly united Tonga (and parliament) quite simply means that all the different departments of society be given an unified independent front to fight it out in the social struggle, thereby allowing them to freely but lively function together in their differences for the overall good of all as opposed to their being subjected to a kind of total social morality. By virtue of this one-in-many, many-in-one social sentiment, the timespasce is ripe to have our unique non-self-centred plural, collectivistic, holistic and circular sense of Tongan tau'ataina (freedom) revolving around tauhiva (keeping-social-political-relations) and its hoa or pair faifatongia (performing-social-economic-obligations) blended into the highly problematically self-centred singular, individualistic, atomistic and linear sense of Western freedom (tau'ataina) in the context of democracy and capitalism as respective political and economic systems. The timespace is right too for the so-called party politics to be done away with once and for all, with both government and opposition elected from the representatives of both the nobles and people, leaving the rest of their counterparts as the so-named opposition, all of whom must now work together in their differences for the greater good of the whole of Tonga and her people.