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Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
Apia, SAMOA — The leader of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) in Samoa has called for a Commission of Inquiry into the Office of the Electoral Commission. Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi made the comment during a press conference with the media at the HRPP headquarters. The call follows the...
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
Apia, SAMOA — A former cabinet minister in Samoa has called on former prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and other opposition party leaders to "hang up their boxing gloves", following the HRPP's crushing electoral defeats. The former Minister for Education Sports and Culture, Loau Keneti...
Faleomavaega Titimaea Tafua, Maiava Fuimaono Tito Asafo, Laumatiamanu Ringo Purcell and Tagaloatele Pasi Poloa.
Apia, SAMOA — The FAST Party is ahead by four out of six seats in last night’s by-election provisional results. Former Manu Samoa Coach, Faleomavaega Titimaea Tafua polled 1026 votes ahead of HRPP woman candidate Faagasealii Sapoa Feagiai with 594 votes in the Aleipata Itupa i Lalo constituency. At...
Samoa's opposition leader, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's opposition leader, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, has called on the FAST government to stop withholding salaries for the Human Rights Protection Party parliamentarians. TV1Samoa reports that Tuilaepa made the call at a news conference saying none of them had been paid since...
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegao
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Elected members of the opposition Human Rights Protection Party have been banned from attending Parliament session scheduled for September 14 at Mulinuu. The HRPP party, led by former prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, were told by a letter Monday from Speaker...
Convoy of cars for demonstration against judiciary.
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's court houses in Apia closed on Friday (Samoa time) in anticipation of a convoy of protest against the country's judiciary. Our correspondent in Apia says hearings scheduled for the afternoon were moved to Monday to avoid any disruption. The protests are in support of the...
Samoa's new FAST party cabinet
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's first woman prime minister, Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa, held the first cabinet meeting of the country's new government on Tuesday (Samoa time). Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga told a cabinet meeting yesterday, Monday, July 26, 2021, of communication earlier in the day with Samoa’s new...
Samoa parliament building
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s new Prime Minister, Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa has announced that Parliament will reconvene as early Wednesday after Cabinet Ministers moved into their offices on Tuesday (Samoa time). Samoa's newly appointed Speaker of Parliament, Papali'i Li'o Ta'eu-Masipau was officially welcomed...
Fiame Naomi Mataafa and Laauli Leuatea Schmidt
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's new FAST Party government has got down to work this morning, meeting with the heads of government departments, more than 100 days after it had won the election. FAST MPs were forced to swear themselves in because the Head of State had barred them from entering Parliament. The...
FAST leaders, Fiame Naomi Mataafa and Laauli Leuatea Schmidt
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Court of Appeal has ruled that the country has a new government after it judged the impromptu swearing-in by the newcomer FAST party on 24 May was legitimate under the doctrine of necessity. The ceremony came on the 45th day following the general election, the last day...

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