# Josefa Dimuri

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***[Ratu](/source/Ratu)*** **Josefa Nalumuialevu Dimuri** is a [Fijian](/source/Fiji) [chief](/source/Ratu) and politician,[1] who served as a [Senator](/source/Senate_of_Fiji)[2] from 2001 to 2006, when he was elected to the [House of Representatives](/source/House_of_Representatives_of_Fiji). Following the election, he was appointed [Minister of State for Agriculture](/source/Minister_of_State_for_Agriculture_(Fiji)), [Alternative Livelihood](/source/Minister_of_State_for_Alternative_Livelihood_(Fiji)), and [Outer Island Development](/source/Minister_of_State_for_Outer_Island_Development_(Fiji)).

## Political career

A former Fiji Times journalist, Dimuri was appointed Minister of Information by the Rabuka government in 1993.[3] He contested the [Macuata](/source/Macuata_(Fijian_Communal_Constituency,_Fiji)) [Fijian](/source/Fijians) [Communal Constituency](/source/Communal_constituencies) on behalf of then-[Prime Minister](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Fiji) [Sitiveni Rabuka](/source/Sitiveni_Rabuka)'s political party, the *[Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei](/source/Soqosoqo_ni_Vakavulewa_ni_Taukei)* (SVT), but was defeated by the [Christian Democratic Alliance](/source/Christian_Democratic_Alliance_(Fiji)) candidate, [Poseci Bune](/source/Poseci_Bune). In 2001, he [contested](/source/2001_Fijian_general_election) the [Bua-Macuata West](/source/Bua_Macuata_West_(Open_Constituency,_Fiji)) [Open Constituency](/source/Open_constituencies), this time as a candidate of the newly formed [Conservative Alliance](/source/Conservative_Alliance-Matanitu_Vanua) (CAMV), and lost again. The [Macuata](/source/Macuata_Province) [Provincial Council](/source/Local_government_in_Fiji), however, chose Dimuri to represent the province in the Senate. According to the non-defunct [1997 Constitution](/source/1997_Constitution_of_Fiji), fourteen Senators were chosen by the [Great Council of Chiefs](/source/Great_Council_of_Chiefs), but in practice the Great Council chose to delegate this prerogative to Fiji's fourteen [provincial councils](/source/Local_government_in_Fiji), each of which chose one Senator.

In April 2005 he was sentenced to eight months imprisonment over his role in the [Sukanaivalu Barracks mutiny](/source/2000_Fijian_mutinies#The_Sukunaivalu_Barracks_mutiny_(7_July_2000)).[4] He was released to serve his sentence extramurally after only 11 days,[1] and subsequently allowed to return to his seat in parliament.[5]

He was elected in an open seat at the [2006 election](/source/2006_Fijian_general_election).[6] He lost his seat following the [2006 Fijian coup d'état](/source/2006_Fijian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat).

## References

1. ["Criticism in Fiji over release of Lalabalavu and Dimuri"](https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/154498/criticism-in-fiji-over-release-of-lalabalavu-and-dimuri). [RNZ](/source/RNZ). 15 April 2005. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

1. ["Fiji Senator calls for investigation into coups and bank collapse"](https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/144291/fiji-senator-calls-for-investigation-into-coups-and-bank-collapse). [RNZ](/source/RNZ). 28 May 2003. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

1. ["Fiji"](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-341384328/view?sectionId=nla.obj-345441341&searchTerm=Jonetani+Kaukimoce&partId=nla.obj-341386474#page/n6/mode/1up/search/Jonetani+Kaukimoce). *Pacific Islands Monthly*. Vol. 63, no. 7. 1 July 1993. p. 7. Retrieved 17 February 2023. – via National Library of Australia.

1. ["Fiji's lands minister jailed for 8 months for coup offences"](https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/154246/fiji%27s-lands-minister-jailed-for-8-months-for-coup-offences). [RNZ](/source/RNZ). 4 April 2005. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

1. ["Jailed Fiji government MPs cleared to return to parliament"](https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/156836/jailed-fiji-government-mps-cleared-to-return-to-parliament). [RNZ](/source/RNZ). 11 August 2005. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

1. ["Fiji vote count continues to show a tight race between two main parties"](https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/162098/fiji-vote-count-continues-to-show-a-tight-race-between-two-main-parties). [RNZ](/source/RNZ). 16 May 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

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