A tense two weeks in Samoa’s capital, Apia, has come to an end today with the country’s first female prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, finally conceding her Samoa Uniting Party (SUP) had lost the election held on Aug. 29.
She had refused to acknowledge defeat or make any comment on the outcome since then.
That was despite the FAST Party of newly elected Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt (widely known as La’auli) having won more than ten times the seats of the SUP.
The final tally gave FAST 31 seats, more than twice as many as the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), which came in second with 14 seats. The SUP won just three. Samoa’s Fale Fono (Parliament) has 51 seats; independents won the last three seats….
Samoa’s First Female Prime Minister Finally Concedes She Lost the Election
