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Anote Tong (in
Chinese, 湯安諾;
pinyin: Tāng Ānnuò — his family name is of Chinese origin but it's now considered as
Gilbertese by Kiribati people) (born
1952) is the
president of
Kiribati. He won the election in July 2003 with a slim plurality of votes cast (47.4%) against his brother, Dr.
Harry Tong (43.5%) and the private lawyer Banuera Berina (9.1%). The elections were contested by the opposition, due to allegations of
electoral fraud but the High Court of
Tarawa had confirmed that there was no fraud. He was easlily re-elected on October 17th, 2007, for a second term (64%).
The son of a
Chinese migrant who settled in the Gilberts after
World War II and of a Gilbertese woman, he went to St Bedes College for his secondry school education then he graduated from
Canterbury University with a degree in Science, then from the
London School of Economics, gaining a Masters in Economics degree.
During the campaign, he promised to review the lease of a spy and satellite tracking base used by the
People's Republic of China and "to take appropriate actions at the right time." On
November 7, he established relations with the
Republic of China on
Taiwan, which led the People's Republic of China to sever relations and vacate its satellite base nearly a month later.
Tong was overwhelmingly re-elected to his seat in parliament in the
August 2007 parliamentary election. On
October 17 2007, he was
re-elected as president by a large majority. The opposition
boycotted the election due to the exclusion of two opposition candidates, including Tong's brother Harry.
He is married to a Kiribati woman named Meme and has seven children.
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