Samoa on tenterhooks

Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
Fiame Naomi Mata'afa

By Monica Miller

Almost two months after voters in Samoa went to the polls to elect a new Parliament , the 51 men and women whom voters picked in the 9 April general elections had still not been sworn in at the time of this writing.

After legal challenges and counter challenges by the two main political parties, the Human Rights Protection Party of caretaker Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi , FAST Party, led by the would-be first female Prime Minister of Samoa, Fiame Naomi Mataafa, things looked settled, with a final ruling by a Court of Appeal on Friday, May 21.

The appeals court upheld . . .

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