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- <text id=93CT1393>
- <title>
- Tonga--Government
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tonga
- Government</hdr><body>
- <list>
- <l>Names:</l>
- <l> conventional long form: Kingdom of Tonga</l>
- <l> conventional short form: Tonga</l>
- <l> former: Friendly Islands</l>
- </list>
- <p>Digraph: TN
- </p>
- <p>Type: hereditary constitutional monarchy
- </p>
- <p>Capital: Nuku alofa
- </p>
- <p>Administrative divisions: three island groups; Ha'apai,
- Tongatapu, Vava'u
- </p>
- <p>Independence: 4 June 1970 (from UK)
- </p>
- <p>Constitution: 4 November 1875, revised 1 January 1967
- </p>
- <p>Legal system: based on English law
- </p>
- <p>National holiday: Emancipation Day, 4 June (1970)
- </p>
- <p>Political parties and leaders: Democratic Reform Movement,
- 'Akilisi POHIVA; Christian Democratic Party, leader NA
- </p>
- <p>Suffrage: all literate, tax-paying males and all literate
- females over 21
- </p>
- <p>Elections:
- </p>
- <p> Legislative Assembly: last held 14-15 February 1990 (next to
- be held 3-4 February 1993); results - percent of vote NA; seats
- - (29 total, 9 elected) 6 proreform, 3 traditionalist
- </p>
- <p>Executive branch: monarch, prime minister, deputy prime
- minister, Council of Ministers (cabinet), Privy Council
- </p>
- <p>Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Assembly (Fale
- Alea)
- </p>
- <p>Judicial branch: Supreme Court
- </p>
- <p>Leaders:
- </p>
- <p> Chief of State: King Taufa'ahau TUPOU IV (since 16 December
- 1965)
- </p>
- <p> Head of Government: Prime Minister Baron VAEA (since 22
- August 1991); Deputy Prime Minister S. Langi KAVALIKU (since 22
- August 1991)
- </p>
- <p>Member of: ACP, AsDB, C, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU,
- IDA, IFAD, IFC, IMF, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, LORCS, SPARTECA, SPC,
- SPF, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO
- </p>
- <p>Diplomatic representation in US: Ambassador Sione KITE,
- resides in London
- </p>
- <p>US diplomatic representation: the US has no offices in Tonga;
- the ambassador to Fiji is accredited to Tonga and makes periodic
- visits
- </p>
- <p>Flag: red with a bold red cross on a white rectangle in the
- upper hoist-side corner
- </p></body></article></text>
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