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Revision as of 23:42, 29 April 2018
| The Right Honourable The Lord Torre of Oldcastle MP | |
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| Prime Minister of Kiribati-Tarawa | |
| In office 2 January 1994 – 3 May 2008 | |
| Monarch | Victor Emmanuel I |
| Preceded by | Iain McDowell |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Langley |
| Leader of the Conservative Party | |
| In office 26 May 1985 – 7 July 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Reginald Spicer |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Langley |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| In office 18 May 1985 – 2 January 1994 | |
| Monarch | Victor Emmanuel I Umberto IV |
| Prime Minister | Maxwell Monaghan |
| Preceded by | Reginald Spicer |
| Succeeded by | Andre Torre |
| Member of Parliament for Grenville | |
| In office 18 May 1985 – 29 April 2018 | |
| Preceded by | John Huntingdon |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andre Vincenzo del Torre 1 December 1944 Oldcastle, Kiribati |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Alessandra Doria (m. 2005) |
| Children | Melissa Guidry (b. 1991) |
| Alma mater | King's College, Westminster |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Andre Vincenzo del Torre, 1st Baron Torre of Oldcastle is a Kiribatian Conservative politician and former prime minister of Kiribati-Tarawa. He served as the Member of Parliament for Grenville from 1985 to 2018, before resigning in order to be created a Lord. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Kiribatian history and the only prime minister to speak English as a second language.
Torre's long tenure as prime minister began with the controversial dismissal of former prime minister Maxwell Monaghan by Victor Emmanuel I amid allegations of fraud at the highest levels of government. The dismissal nearly brought down the monarchy when the Labour Party contested the 1994 general election on a republican platform in favour of the abolition of the monarchy; Torre's victory in the election saved the monarchy from being abolished.
As prime minister, Torre is noted for his economic reforms that helped bring an end to the 1992-1994 recession, as for overseeing the largest public corruption probe in Kiribatian history, which found that the Treasury had falsified economic data for political gain.
