Silas Tausinga

{{Short description|Solomon Islands politician (born 1983)}}

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| name = Silas Tausinga

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| image = Silas Tausinga 2018 (cropped).jpg

| office = Minister for Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening

| primeminister = Gordon Darcy Lilo

| term_start = 4 March 2012

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| predecessor = David Tome

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| constituency_MP5 = West New Georgia

| term_start5 = 4 August 2010

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Silas Vaqara Tausinga,[http://www.islandsun.com.sb/index.php/sports/national/5273-petitions-continue-later-this-month "Petitions continue later this month"], Islands Sun, 4 October 2010 born 12 August 1983,[http://www.parliament.gov.sb/index.php?q=node/528 "Hon. Silas Tausinga"], National Parliament of Solomon Islands is a Solomon Islands politician. He is the son of Job Tausinga, who was first elected to the National Parliament in 1984.

After a secondary education, he went into work, as a bank officer at the Bank South Pacific.

He was elected to Parliament for the first time in the August 2010 general election, as MP for the West New Georgia constituency. He sat alongside his father, both of them as representatives of the Party for Rural Advancement. Despite Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo being the only other member of the party in Parliament, the Tausingas initially sat on the Opposition benches. In March 2012, Silas Tausinga (but not his father) defected to the government side, and was appointed Minister for Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141129060707/http://www.islandsun.com.sb/index.php/sports/national/2396-2nd-opposition-mp-becomes-minister "2nd Opposition MP becomes Minister"], Islands Sun, 5 March 2012 At the age of just 28, he was the youngest person in the country to become a government minister.[http://country.eiu.com/(F(TtU0cQAyhaphL8u22Tggd8sPWrUBBTnQcJe3NofdpHGLuNHuemEuQiTOZ7gMXvEMS6EVmker_i-B30rUL1vuX7g60O1Zg8UGMVvxaJL9Tpw1))/article.aspx?articleid=1138981098&Country=Solomon%20Islands&topic=Politics&subtopic=Recent+developments&oid=1227940107&flid=1138981098 "Solomon Islands: The prime minister reshuffles his cabinet"], The Economist, 23 April 2012