Although still living in exile in Cambodia, he publicly resurfaced in May 2012 as a columnist for Red Power, a red shirt publication with republican leanings.

While many Tuvaluan politicians tend to avoid organizing themselves along partisan lines, Latasi is noted for his republican leanings, together with another former Prime Minister of Tuvalu, the late Ionatana Ionatana.

A wealthy landowner, his father was also an important dried fruit trader, a much travelled man, who had been educated in France and witnessed the 1848 revolution, had republican leanings and had been Belgian Consul in the Algarve.

The CEC also says it is fighting for "real" Labor policies (from the 1930-40s republican leanings of the Australian Labor Party).

Kelly's editorship raised hackles with its pro-Irish republican leanings, especially in the years around and immediately after World War I. Eventually, Kelly was forced to resign from the paper's editorship at the beginning of the 1930s.

Congratulations also came in from the Queen's prime ministers, including Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard, who has at other times demonstrated moderate republican leanings.

His actions during the Purge period definitely indicate that he developed strong republican leanings before 1648.

Ionatana was somewhat noted for his republican leanings.

Italy clung to Rococo until the Napoleonic regimes brought the new archaeological classicism, which was embraced as a political statement by young, progressive, urban Italians with republican leanings.

Former Prime Minister Sir Kamuta Latasi was knighted by the Queen in 2008 although he is noted for his republican leanings in Tuvaluan politics.