Daniel Urai Manufolau

Who is Daniel Urai Manufolau?

Daniel Urai Manufolau is a Fijian trade unionist and politician from Lautoka, who won the Lautoka City Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 2001 and 2006.

Urai is President of the Fiji Trades Union Congress. From 1990 to 2006, he was also involved in the leadership of the Fiji Electricity and Allied Workers Union, but resigned on 6 April 2006 to contest the position of Secretary of the Public Employees Union. He was disqualified by the High Court from contesting this poll, however, on legal technicalities that are currently the subject of an appeal in the Court of Appeal, the Fiji Times reported on 16 September 2006.

Like many Fijian people, he rarely uses his last name.