Sione Vuna Fa'otusia
Sione Vuna Fa'otusia is a Tongan politician, Cabinet Minister, and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga.
Prior to entering politics Fa'otusia was a member of the Tongan Public Servants Association and chair of its strike committee during Tonga's 2005 public service strike. He was counsel to the Shipping Corporation of Polynesia Ltd, owners of the MV Princess Ashika.
He was elected as a Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands candidate at the 2014 Tongan general election and appointed as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of ʻAkilisi Pōhiva. He was re-elected in the 2017 Tongan general election and reappointed to Cabinet. As Justice Minister Fa'otusia appointed the first Tongan judge to the Supreme Court of Tonga in over a hundred years, and aims to have an all-Tongan Court by 2020. He has also publicly supported capital punishment.
In January 2019 Fa'otusia was charged with wrongful interference with the course of justice and using threatening language in a dispute over a stolen cow. In December 2019 he was acquitted after a judge found there was insufficient evidence.
Following the death of ʻAkilisi Pōhiva Sovaleni supported Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa for Prime Minister, leaving the DPFI to join Tuʻiʻonetoa's new People's Party. He was appointed to Tuʻiʻonetoa's Cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice and Prisons.
