--Previous Message-- If the ministers, powerful district or village chiefs decide they do not like the Lavelua they easily depose him and elect someone else from a different family. Some of them have only lasted a few months. Frequently they cannot agree and there are periodic interregnums. All five predecessors of Tomasi Kulimoetoke II Lavelua were either deposed or forced to resign due to pressure from some party or another.
: Dear readers;
:
: Better look at this Princess Etua,who might
: be the next Queen of Uvea.Some say,that
: these are just chiefs,but the world(God)left
: them to life this way,so why not call them
: sort of Kings.The rule here is centralised
: and in areas with chiefs it is not always
: that way.
: The Prince of Monaco is also not a chief,but
: a monarch.
: Yours sincerelly: DP Tick gRMK/Pusaka.
:
But the situaion in Wallis and Futuna is precisely the opposie of what you say. It isn't very centralised. The country is very different from the other pacific kingdoms of say Tonga or Hawaii.
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