The publication reported Tuila epa saying that one arm of government should not like Hitler seek to assert its authority over another. He has instead insisted that Parliament can only be properly constituted after petitions, by-elections, and the invoking, if necessary, of a requirement that at least six women MPs be in Parliament. Tuila epa s caretaker government appears likely to face further legal challenges after announcing on Tuesday that they had the power to obtain funding for ministries budgets for the new fiscal year despite Parliament not sitting. Contempt of court Meanwhile, the caretaker prime minister is due to face a contempt of court suit tomorrow.
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Samoa has elected its first woman prime minister. Now an ongoing constitutional crisis, ironically centred around competing interpretations of Samoa’s parliamentary gender quota provisions, is preventing her from taking power. On Monday, it was not a glass ceiling that stopped Fiame Naomi Mata’afa – on track to become Samoa’s first woman prime minister – but a glass door.
Sapeer Mayron in Apia19:12, May 24 2021
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Samoa has been in constitutional crisis and mired in controversy since its April 9 election.
Samoa s caretaker Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is refusing to back down and has accused the incoming Government of “treason” in a blistering speech.
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa was sworn in as Samoa’s first female prime minister on Monday evening and her Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party as the new government, in a ceremony held in a makeshift parliament convened in a tent after the defeated government refused to cede power. With the doors to the actual parliament locked to try to stop the transition of power and the ousted prime minister refusing to obey Supreme Court orders, analysts warned that the island nation was experiencing a bloodless coup.