{{short description|Palauan politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Carlos Salii | image = Carlos Hiroshi Salii 2010 (cropped).jpg | order = | office2 = Speaker of the House of Delegates of Palau | term_start2 = January 1981 | term_end2 = July 1985 | predecessor2 = New position | successor2 = Santos Olikong | birth_name = Carlos Hiroshi Salii | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 2014 | death_place = | spouse = | alma_mater = | relatives = Lazarus Salii (brother) }} '''Carlos Hiroshi Salii''' (died 2014) was a Palauan lawyer, politician and a former Speaker of the House of Delegates of Palau from 1981 to 1985.<ref name="leibowitz" />
Salii worked as assistant attorney general of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in 1970s. He worked as legislative counsel of the Angaur state.<ref>{{cite web |title=Constitution of the State of Angaur: 13 |url=https://pacificdigitallibrary.org/cgi-bin/pdl?e=q-000off-pdl--00-2--0--010-TE--4-------0-1l--10en-50---20-about-carlos+salii--00-3-1-00bySR-0-0-000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=pdl&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASHa4b7077d472c4cdb9c8ddf.14 |website=pacificdigitallibrary.org}}</ref>
Salii was floor leader of the Palau legislature in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZpoF_CaviYC |publisher=Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Office of United Nations Political Affairs |language=en}}</ref> He was elected to the first House of Delegates of Palau in the 1980 elections. He was elected as the Speaker of the House of Delegates when the house convened in January. He represented the state of Ngeaur aka Angaur.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pacific Islands Monthly: PIM. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGV0AAAAMAAJ |publisher=Pacific Publications |language=en |date=1981}}</ref> He was re-elected in 1984.<ref>{{cite web |title=Salii v. House of Delegates, 3 ROP Intrm. 351 (Tr. Div. 1988) |url=http://www.palausupremecourt.net/doc/ROP_Reporters/3ROP/3%20ROP%20Intrm%20351.pdf |publisher=Supreme Court of Palau}}</ref> He was expelled from the House of Delegates.
He was the younger brother of former president Lazarus Salii.<ref name="leibowitz">{{cite book |last1=Leibowitz |first1=Arnold |title=Embattled Island: Palau's Struggle for Independence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBcp1CguyeMC |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |language=en |date=16 February 1996|isbn=9780275953904 }}</ref> He died 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Judiciary's Tribute to the late Carlos H. Salii, Esq. |url=http://www.palausupremecourt.net/news-1.cshtml?PK=a0cd8db851b74c0ab6cf502315a6d917 |website=www.palausupremecourt.net |publisher=Supreme Court of Palau}}</ref>
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