independent mp loses portfolio

independent mp loses portfolio

// news photo: has piho rua seen his last sunset as tourism minister?

Cook Islands tourism minister Piho Rua has been sacked just months after taking the post, according to rumours in the capital Avarua.
"It's not what he was sacked for, it was which ones," said one businessman.
"I can think of 200 reasons."
Rua is hugely unpopular in the private sector, being considered a loose cannon whose interference could damage tourism, the country's number one industry.
No official confirmation of the sacking or the real reasons behind it have emerged.
Most governments resist pressure from the private sector over the performance of cabinet ministers and senior officials.
Earlier in the day, for the third day running, a government official said they were ready to confirm cabinet portfolios - some seven months after general elections - "anytime now."
Only two of six ministers have had portfolios officially announced so far.
Portfolios for Prime Minister Jim Marurai and Health Minister Peri Vaevaepare both appear on the government website.
Government media relations unit GovMedia was not able to supply portfolio lists for others in cabinet: Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Henry and ministers Tom Marsters, Tupou Faireka and Piho Rua.
All have been quoted in the media as representing various portfolios.
Now Rua looks like losing his.

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