Has the door finally opened for Samoa's first female prime minister, after weeks of constitutional crisis?
- Written by: Patricia A. O'Brien, Visiting Fellow, School of History, Australian National University, and Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University
Samoa’s constitutional crisis has entered yet another phase, just over a month after the nation’s first woman prime minister-elect, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, was locked out of parliament and sworn into office in a tent.
Samoa’s Supreme Court has today found the May 24 swearing in was unconstitutional — on the face of it a...