Tag: Samoan elections

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...

EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer's editorial board Amid a mountainload of work this week in the Attorney-General’s Office – as the caretaker government’s lawyers...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

ANALYSIS: By Patricia A. O'Brien, Georgetown University New battlelines in Samoa’s ongoing political crisis were drawn this week. After an evening swearing-in ceremony on the...

By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ News Pacific correspondent Samoa’s Attorney-General’s office is calling yesterday’s swearing-in ceremony of Samoa’s FAST Party unconstitutional and unlawful, and is preparing...

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...

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...

EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer Editorial Board What a shame it had to happen as it did. Fiame Naomi Mata'afa taking the oath of office to...

RNZ Pacific Samoa's election-winning FAST party leader Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has been named the country's first woman Prime Minister, in a swearing-in ceremony her rival...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Samoa's judiciary sent a powerful message today to the other two branches of the country's democracy amid a political crisis branded...

By Jamie Tahana, RNZ Pacific journalist Samoa's constitutional crisis deepened today with the party that commands the majority of seats locked out of Parliament, but...

By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appealed for people in Samoa to uphold its democracy and institutions. Speaking...

By Lagi Keresoma in Apia Samoa's Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal by the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) against the Supreme Court’s ruling...

RNZ Pacific Samoa's Head of State has agreed to convene Parliament in order to swear in the members elected in April's general election after weeks...

RNZ Pacific The struggle to decide Samoa's government is headed back to court, as both main political parties continue to stand firm on their beliefs...

By Lagi Keresoma in Apia The new elections in Samoa called by the Head of State for this Friday, May 21, cannot proceed as they...

RNZ News Samoa is to hear on Monday whether fresh elections will go ahead next week. The Supreme Court heard challenges yesterday to the new ballot...