‘Entitled to take office’: Samoa’s top court endorses new PM
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Canberra: Samoa’s Court of Appeal ruled on Friday a makeshift swearing in ceremony for the country’s next government was legal, officially installing Samoa’s first female prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mataafa.
The islands’ politics descended into chaos earlier this year after the incumbent Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoa’s China-friendly prime minister, refused to give way after losing a parliamentary election in April that would have ended his 22 years in power.
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