Solomon Islands Labour Party

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Solomon Islands Labour Party
LeaderJoses Tuhanuku
FounderSolomon Islands Council of Trade Unions
Founded1988
IdeologyLabourism
Federalism[1]

The Solomon Islands Labour Party is a political party in Solomon Islands. The party was founded in 1988[2] by the Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions after the leadership of the union split.[3] Joses Tuhanuku went on to lead the Labour Party, while Bartholomew Ulufa'alu formed the Solomon Islands Liberal Party.[4] Tuhanuku would be an MP for the party starting in 1989.

The party participated in government from 1993 until 1994 and then in the Solomon Islands Alliance for Change government from 1997 to 2000.

Tuhanuku lost his seat in 2006 and the party has contested no parliamentary elections since then.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lal, Brij V., ed. (1995). Lines across the sea: colonial inheritance in the post colonial Pacific (PDF). Brisbane: Pacific History Association. ISBN 978-0-646-24640-6.
  2. ^ O'Callaghan, Mary-Louise; Honimae, Johnson; Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, eds. (2013). Rebuilding a nation: ten years of the Solomon Islands - RAMSI partnership. Honiara: Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). ISBN 978-982-9112-02-6. OCLC 863632742.
  3. ^ Banks, Arthur S.; Muller, Thomas C.; Overstreet, William R. (2006). Political Handbook of the World 2005-2006. Thousand Oaks: CQ Press. doi:10.4135/9781483341194. ISBN 978-1-4833-4119-4.
  4. ^ Premdas, Ralph R., and Jeffrey S. Steeves. “The 1993 National Elections in the Solomon Islands.” The Journal of Pacific History 29, no. 3 (1994): 46–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25434265.