The winner of the elections in Samoa could not be sworn in as Prime Minister on Monday after she found the parliament … locked.
The Samoa Islands changed polar side in the April 9 elections after the Human Rights Protection Party lost for the first time in almost 40 years.
The winner of the election process was Fiame Naomi Matafa, of the FAST party, who will be the first woman Prime Minister in the history of the country.
But will he swear? So far, however, he has not succeeded. On Monday, Matafa went to Parliament normally for the swearing-in ceremony but found the doors … locked.
What had happened; The head of state Vaaleto Sulawavi with his personal decision on Saturday night canceled the parliamentary procedure on Monday. What if the country’s highest court ruled the ruling illegal on Sunday?
Matafa and her companions found the first ones locked after the verdict of the high court was ignored by the authorities, as broadcast by a New Zealand radio station.
Very logically, the representatives of FAST spoke of a “bloody coup” …
But even for the winner of the election there are doubts and two views. An independent candidate may have given the coveted majority to FAST (26-24 seats) but the country’s electoral commission created a new seat from scratch to meet the gender quota (10% of MPs must be women).
Since then, it becomes a real disaster which culminated with the … invalid swearing in of Monday.
