Te Kura O te Au candidates will elect leader

In a media statement released to the Times on Friday morning, developer Tim Tepaki, chairman for the Rarotonga branch of Te Kura O Te Au said the movement is waiting to see what the CIP and Demo parties have to offer to rescue the economy and save our people in these days of recession and grief before it moves into election mode. He said for the meantime the movement is happy to trickle feed its philosophy out for public consumption.
The chairman said the movement deliberately held back its candidate and leadership selection until the other parties complete their candidate selection, as it is logical that the divisive and public spectacle selection process of other parties will lead to anger and collapse of support that should benefit Te Kura O Te Au. He added that the division in the candidate selection process by other parties is the outcome of their central committee dictating to electorates who is best to serve them and it is for this reason Te Kura O Te Au has adopted a policy of the electorate electing their candidate without the interference of the central committee.
As to the selection process, the chairman said the Rarotonga branch will shortly announce representatives for each electorate and their contact numbers, who will hold copies of the policy, and ask that interested members contact the representative and register themselves, adding that registration is one dollar.
On the selection of candidates, he said members interested in standing can obtain application forms from the representatives and apply, adding that candidates have to know they stand to serve the people and not rule them, and the movement counts on their Christian heart to know what is right and what is wrong during the selection process. He said candidates will need the support of ten paid up members and application is one hundred dollars.
On the election of a leader, the chairman said it will be the chosen candidates who will elect their leader, not anyone else, and again the movement counts on their wisdom and Christian heart to know who to elect.
Tepaki said the country’s economy is bordering on deficit and recession and needs to reinvent itself to be sustainable. It does not need more of the same and sacking Cook Islanders to achieve sustainability, can only result in further depopulation and Cook Islanders becoming minorities in their own country.

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