Iairo Lasaro

{{Short description|Papua New Guinean politician}}

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|name = Iairo Lasaro

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|office = Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea

|term_start = October 1998

|term_end = July 1999

|primeminister = Sir Bill Skate

|predecessor = Michael Nali

|successor = John Pundari

|office2 = Speaker of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea

|primeminister2 = Sir Bill Skate

|term_start2 = 13 July 1999

|term_end2 = 14 July 1999

|predecessor2 = John Pundari

|successor2 = Bernard Narokobi

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|constituency_MP6 = Alotau

|term_start6 = 1987

|term_end6 = 2002

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|death_date = 13 May 2023

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|party = People's Democratic Movement (as of 1997){{cite web |title=Running count of PNG electorates - Archived Website |url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/19990117015059/http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/PNG/htmls/Votecount.html |website=Trove |language=en}}

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Iairo Lasaro (died 13 May 2023) was a Papua New Guinean politician.{{cite web |title=First Day Draft Hansard |url=https://www.parliament.gov.pg/uploads/hansard/H-11-20230606-M07-D01.pdf |website=National Parliament of Papua New Guinea |date=6 June 2023 |pages=3–4}} He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from October 1998 to July 1999 under Prime Minister Bill Skate.{{cite news |title=Papua New Guinea mulls market debut |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/230916860 |work=Euroweek |date=29 January 1999 |language=en}} He has held various ministries in the cabinet and shadow cabinet, being the Minister for Finance (Sep – Dec 1997) and then the Minister for Treasury (Dec 1997 – Jul 1999) in the Skate administration.{{cite news |title=Papua New Guinea Premier Preempts Confidence Vote |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-08-mn-54110-story.html |access-date=4 February 2025 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=8 July 1999}} He was member of parliament for Alotau Open Electorate from 1987 to 2002, having been re-elected twice. He was elected Speaker of the National Parliament on 13 July 1999 with 57 votes in favour and 45 against, but resigned the next day as Skate had lost the prime ministerial vote to Mekere Morauta that morning; Bernard Narokobi was elected the next speaker in a unanimous vote.{{cite web |title=ABC News - Day of drama in PNG politics - Archived Website |url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20001121011900/http://abc.net.au/news/1999/07/item19990714152943_1.htm |website=Trove |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Beyond 1999—some certainty for Papua New Guinea? |url=https://devpolicy.org/PEB/wp-content/plugins/pdfjs-viewer-shortcode/pdfjs/web/viewer.php?file=https://devpolicy.org/PEB-APPS/PEB%201986-2006/142_02.pdf&download=true&print=true&openfile=false |website=Pacific Economic Bulletin |date=1999}}