We have a new, but still disputed, winner for Samoa’s general elections with Samoa’s Supreme Court yesterday ruling the addition of a woman Member of Parliament after the election count, as unconstitutional, effectively giving the opposition FAST party a one seat majority over the caretaker HRPP party and making a second election unnecessary.

 

The caretaker Prime Minister has vowed to take a case to the Court of Appeal.

 

To give us his take on the latest maneuverings in Samoa’s political landscape we have on the line Dr Iati Iati, Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations Programme and Pacific Security Fellow in the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.

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