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June 3, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the editorial board of the Samoa Observer Samoa’s 59th Independence Day has come and gone, without the usual fanfare and intense patriotism we have grown accustomed to from previous years. What we’ve seen for the last few weeks and indeed months has tested the strength of our democracy at the highest of levels ... <a title="Samoa Observer: Democracy tested as Samoa celebrates independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/samoa-observer-democracy-tested-as-samoa-celebrates-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: Democracy tested as Samoa celebrates independence">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Court of Appeal decision today may pave the way for the FAST party to assume control of the Samoan government. Samoa’s Court of Appeal has voided the legal challenge by a Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) women’s candidate, who said she was wrongly removed as an MP. Ali’imalemanu Alofa Tuuau had been ... <a title="Samoan court voids appeal over additional women’s seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/samoan-court-voids-appeal-over-additional-womens-seat/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan court voids appeal over additional women’s seat">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s incoming leader has condemned the actions of the former government and demanded it hand over power. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, speaking formally as the country’s elected prime minister, slammed the behaviour of Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi and his Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP). Fiame’s FAST party, which won 26 seats in last month’s election ... <a title="Samoa’s Fiame condemns defeated PM Tuilaepa’s ‘perverse’ actions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/samoas-fiame-condemns-defeated-pm-tuilaepas-perverse-actions/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s Fiame condemns defeated PM Tuilaepa’s ‘perverse’ actions">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
RNZ Saturday Morning Samoa found itself in a constitutional crisis this week when the caretaker Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) government locked the doors to Parliament in an attempt to stop prime minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata’afa being sworn in to office following her FAST party’s one-seat election win. Samoa now finds itself in the position ... <a title="RNZ Saturday Morning: How will the Samoan constitutional crisis end?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/rnz-saturday-morning-how-will-the-samoan-constitutional-crisis-end/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Saturday Morning: How will the Samoan constitutional crisis end?">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer’s editorial board Amid a mountainload of work this week in the [Samoan] Attorney-General’s Office – as the caretaker government’s lawyers look over the constitution for ways to “delegitimise” Monday’s Parliament swearing-in of Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party members – Attorney-General Savalenoa Mareva Betham-Annandale still finds time ... <a title="Samoa Observer: The Attorney-General’s fall from grace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/samoa-observer-the-attorney-generals-fall-from-grace/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: The Attorney-General’s fall from grace">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Attorney-General has recalled a scathing media release questioning the integrity of the country’s judiciary. The release demanded that the judges appointed to hear an election appeal be disqualified because of, it was claimed, the judges’ alleged potential conflicts of interest and potential favouritism. “There is now substantive evidence before our office that ... <a title="Samoan A-G recalls statement critical of judiciary as ‘olive branch’ offered to FAST" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/samoan-a-g-recalls-statement-critical-of-judiciary-as-olive-branch-offered-to-fast/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan A-G recalls statement critical of judiciary as ‘olive branch’ offered to FAST">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Australia and New Zealand are being urged to follow the lead of the Federated States of Micronesia, and recognise Fiame Naomi Mata’afa as Samoa’s Prime Minister, reports Pacnews. But neither Australia nor New Zealand are showing any signs of making such a declaration, with both governments towing the diplomatic line of ... <a title="Australia, NZ criticised for ‘silence’ over recognition for Samoa’s Fiame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/27/australia-nz-criticised-for-silence-over-recognition-for-samoas-fiame/" aria-label="Read more about Australia, NZ criticised for ‘silence’ over recognition for Samoa’s Fiame">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2021
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ One News Pacific correspondent Samoa’s deepening political crisis has taken yet another turn today after the Attorney-General’s office launched an astounding attack on the country’s judiciary. The Supreme Court hearing over whether the swearing in of the FAST party outside Parliament was legitimate has been adjourned to next week after the ... <a title="Attorney-General attacks Chief Justice as Samoan political crisis deepens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/27/attorney-general-attacks-chief-justice-as-samoan-political-crisis-deepens/" aria-label="Read more about Attorney-General attacks Chief Justice as Samoan political crisis deepens">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Editorial Board As the focus of Samoa’s political crisis shifts to the courtrooms of our Supreme and District Courts, and with Monday, 24 May 2021, going down in the history books as a tale of alternate realities, we are left wondering if there is something missing. Wherever you stand and whoever you ... <a title="Samoa Observer: Where is the Head of State?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/27/samoa-observer-where-is-the-head-of-state/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: Where is the Head of State?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2021
By Jamie Tahana, RNZ Pacific journalist Samoa’s incoming prime minister has called for the caretaker Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) government to relinquish power so the country can rebuild. The country is in a constitutional crisis after the FAST party, which won a one-seat majority in the April 9 election, was blocked from entering Parliament ... <a title="Fiame calls for Tuila’epa to end Samoa’s ‘enormous assault’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/27/fiame-calls-for-tuilaepa-to-end-samoas-enormous-assault/" aria-label="Read more about Fiame calls for Tuila’epa to end Samoa’s ‘enormous assault’">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s FAST Party is expecting to face another day locked out of Parliament today and is also predicting a long year ahead to resolve the country’s constitutional crisis. Accusations of coups and treason are flying as the standoff between the majority FAST party and the defeated caretaker government shows no sign of ending. ... <a title="FAST heading back to court to try and resolve political impasse in Samoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/fast-heading-back-to-court-to-try-and-resolve-political-impasse-in-samoa/" aria-label="Read more about FAST heading back to court to try and resolve political impasse in Samoa">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
RNZ Pacific The next step in the Samoan crisis is to see where the police land and to get a sense of who is going to line up on which side and who will get “the social licence” to be the legitimate government, says a leading New Zealand academic. Associate professor of Pacific studies at ... <a title="Next question is role of police and ‘social licence’ in Samoan crisis, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/next-question-is-role-of-police-and-social-licence-in-samoan-crisis-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about Next question is role of police and ‘social licence’ in Samoan crisis, says academic">Read more</a>
