SUVA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tonga's new cabinet led by Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva was sworn in on Thursday.

According to Matangi Tonga Online, the island state's leading news website, 76-year-old Pohiva was in the Tongan parliament on Thursday to be sworn in for his second consecutive term, along with his cabinet and fellow representatives.

The new cabinet has 12 members, including Prime Minister Pohiva, who had been in a capital hospital for medical treatment for days.

Pohiva, who was first elected MP in 1987 and became Tonga's prime minister in 2014, was removed from prime ministerial post by King Tupou VI after the King dissolved the parliament in August last year.

But Pohiva's Democratic Party enjoyed a resounding victory in the November election last year by winning 14 of the 17 People's Representatives seats.