Lautafi Fio Selafi Purcell
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Lautafi Fio Selafi Purcell | |
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 Purcell in 2018 | |
| Minister of Labour, Industry and Commerce | |
| In office 18 March 2016 – 24 May 2021[a] | |
| Prime Minister | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
| Preceded by | Fonotoe Pierre Lauofo |
| Succeeded by | Faumuina Asi Pauli Wayne Fong |
| Minister of Public Enterprises | |
| In office 26 April 2014 – 24 May 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Faumuina Asi Pauli Wayne Fong |
| Minister of Tourism | |
| In office 18 March 2016 – 30 June 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
| Succeeded by | Sala Fata Pinati |
| Member of the Samoan Parliament for Satupaitea | |
| Assumed office 2 August 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Asiata Sale'imoa Va'ai |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Human Rights Protection Party |
Lautafi Fio Selafi Joseph Purcell is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.
Purcell was educated at Chanel College, Moamoa and St Paul's College, Auckland as well as Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.[1] He subsequently worked as a prison manager, prison inspector and policy advisor for the New Zealand Department of Justice and Department of Corrections.[1]
Purcell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in a 2011 by-election,[2] and appointed Associate Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.[1] Following a Cabinet reshuffle in April 2014 he was appointed as the first Minister of Public Enterprises.[3]
He was re-elected unopposed at the 2016 Samoan general election[4][5] and appointed Minister of Labour, Tourism and Samoa Land Corporation, as well as retaining his Government Enterprises portfolio.[6][7] Another reshuffle in June 2016 saw him lose the Tourism portfolio to Sala Fata Pinati but retain Labour, Commerce, and Government Enterprises.[8]
He is married to public servant Lematua Gisa Fuatai Purcell.[9]
