Roko Tupou Takaiwai Senirewa Draunidalo is a Fijian lawyer and politician. She is a former member of the Parliament of Fiji and president of the HOPE political party established in July, 2018.
Draunidalo condemned the military coup that took place on 5 December 2006, and threatened a possible court challenge to the legitimacy of the interim Cabinetsworn in on 8–9 January 2007. On 30 January 2007 Draunidalo was arrested by soldiers along with Pacific Centre for Public Integrity Director Angie Heffernan and questioned on charges of sedition. In June 2007 she was prevented from leaving Fiji to attend an international conference after being mistakenly included on an immigration blacklist. In July 2007 she was charged with contempt of court after stating in an interview with ABC that Fijian lawyers had lost faith in the judiciary. The case was subsequently withdrawn, but the High Court criticised Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum for bringing it and awarded costs against him. Draunidalo represented lawyers including the president of the Fiji Law Society Mr. Dorsami Naidu in various litigation after the 2006 coup, she also represented an NGO in an application at the eleventh hour to join the constitutional litigation going to the validity of the 1997 constitution between the elected prime minister and the usurping military commander. The substantive matter upheld the validity of the constitution and the arguments of Draunidalo’s NGO client led by a Sydney silk was largely adopted by the court. In 2012, Draunidalo represented former Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in his corruption trial.
In March 2014 Draunidalo was elected as president of the NationalFederation Party. She competed in the 2014 election, winning 2,966 votes and becoming one of eight women to enter parliament. In June 2016, she made remarks against the Fijian Minister for Education, Mahendra Reddy asking him if he thought the opposition side were "dumb natives" for which she was taken to the government controlled Privileges Committee who recommended that she was suspended from parliament for the remainder of the term of Parliament which ends in 2018. In January 2017 she resigned from the NFP and from parliament to avoid working with the first coup leader and racist Sitiveni Rabuka who had resumed leadership of the main opposition party. Her seat was taken by Parmod Chand.
In 2018 Draunidalo formed the HOPE Party, becoming its leader. The party was registered in July 2018, with Draunidalo leading it into the 2018 elections. Although the three month old party did not win parliamentary seats, the Fiji government has adopted many of their policy recommendations with regard to the rule of law, governance, better relations with businesses and private investors, the environment and the economy. Draunidalo has also said that foreign governments have adopted some of their policy ideas and recommendations in their dealings with the Fijian government, in particular with regard to governance in particular the lessening of Fiji government peacekeeping costs and improvement of training and resources for the military with emphasis on the navy, engineering and disaster response services.
