Editing Politics of Tuvalu (section)

==Executive branch==

{{See also|Cabinet of Tuvalu}}{{office-table}}
|[[Monarch of Tuvalu|Monarch]]
|[[Charles III|King Charles III]]
|rowspan=2 {{n/a}}
|8 September 2022
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|[[Governor-General of Tuvalu|Governor-General]]
| The Rev. [[Tofiga Vaevalu Falani|Sir Tofiga Vaevalu Falani]] 
|28 September 2021
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|[[Prime Minister of Tuvalu|Prime Minister]]
|[[Feleti Teo]]
|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|26 February 2024
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[[Charles III|King Charles III]]—as the [[Monarchy of Tuvalu|King]] of [[Tuvalu]]—is the [[List of heads of state of Tuvalu|head of state]], represented by the [[Governor-General of Tuvalu|governor-general]], who is appointed by the King on advice of the [[Prime Minister of Tuvalu]]. The prime minister is elected by the members of the [[Parliament of Tuvalu|parliament]].  The members also elect the [[List of Speakers of the Parliament of Tuvalu|Speaker of the Parliament of Tuvalu]] who is the [[Speaker (politics)|presiding officer]] of the parliament. The [[Minister (government)|ministers]] that form the [[Cabinet of Tuvalu|cabinet]] are appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister.<ref name="IPU81"/> The [[Attorney-General]] sits in parliament, but does not vote: the parliamentary role of the Attorney-General is purely advisory.<ref name="IPU81"/> The current Attorney-General is [[Laingane Italeli Talia]].<ref name="UNinfo">{{cite web| title= Human Rights Council adopted the UPR outcomes of Tuvalu | publisher= United Nations Information Centre Canberra |date= 20 September 2014|url= http://un.org.au/2013/09/20/human-rights-council-adopted-the-upr-outcomes-of-tuvalu/|access-date=16 January 2014}}</ref>

The Office of the Prime Minister supports the prime minister and the deputy prime minister and also has responsibility for the public service, the police, immigration, broadcasting and media. The [[Cabinet of Tuvalu]] consists of the Prime Minister and eight ministers, who are allocated the portfolios made up of the government departments that each minister supervises.

During the governments of [[Bikenibeu Paeniu]], [[Ionatana Ionatana]],<ref name="QC0">{{cite web| last =Clements| first =Quiton  | work= UNDP |title=Tuvalu Legislative Needs Assessment|date =December 2000|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-332069776/view?sectionId=nla.obj-337518629&partId=nla.obj-332125698#page/n25/mode/1up| accessdate=4 October 2021}}</ref>  and [[Faimalaga Luka]], members of parliament who were not ministers were appointed to positions described variously as ‘Special Ministerial Advisers” and “Parliamentarians with Special Responsibilities” and, in one case, as Chairman of a Public Service Reform Committee. A decision of the [[High Court of Tuvalu]] in 2003 determined that “Cabinet did not have the power to make these appointments and the purported use of such a power was unlawful.”<ref name="AG2003-2">{{cite web| work= PACLII |title= Latasi v R, ex parte Attorney General [2003] TVHC 24; HC Civil Case No 03 of 2002 (30 September 2003) |url= http://www.paclii.org/tv/cases/TVHC/2003/24.html| access-date=6 October 2021}}</ref>