Semisi Palu ‘Ifoni Tapueluelu (born October 28, 1949)[1] more commonly known as Semisi Tapueluelu, is a Tongan politician.
His career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the tenth constituency of Tongatapu in the November 2010 general election.
Standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands, he obtained 26.6% of the vote, seeing off eleven other candidates.
[2][3][4] In July 2014 Tapueluelu was dumped as a Democratic Party candidate.
[5] He ran as an independent in the 2014 Tongan general election, but was not re-elected.