The late Hon Vaai Kolone was finishing his billiard game with friends at the RSA Club one evening in late 1966, when he overheard a challenge by Tufuga Efi Nelson, that if the wealthy farmer Vaai Kolone should run for Vaisigano No. 1, he Tufuga E Nelson would crush him. Vaai walked across, sat do.
With the doors to the actual parliament locked to try to stop the transition of power, the FAST party and its leader, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa s first woman prime minister, were sworn in outside of parliament, in a marquee. For those who aren’t so sure about what’s going on in Samoa and the changes it brings about to its political scene and prime minister, let’s explain the basics.
BEC HANIFY-SEUMANU/Supplied Who has been the dominant political party? For 39 years, Samoa has had the same political party – the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) – in power, and the same leader since 1998.
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