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Map of Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. According to Samoan oral tradition, Tonga was once under the dominion of the Tui Manu'a and paid tribute to the revered paramount chief. [3] In the tenth century this dominance waned and eventually supplanted by the Tuʻi Tonga Empire. While Manu'a under the Tui Manu'a remained independent, the rest of Samoa paid ...
At the 2021 general election, independents won the most seats, securing 13. [2] The Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (PTOA) won majorities in most constituencies. [3] However, the party had been plagued by divisions since party founder and Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva's death in 2019. [4]
While the PTOA won majorities in most constituencies, vote-splitting between the rival factions saw them lose seats to independent candidates. [30] Only three PTOA candidates were elected: Semisi Fakahau, Veivosa Taka and Saia Piukala. [31] The People's Party formally retained only one seat, [32] but may name its members after the elections. [33]
The April 2021 elections resulted in a hung Parliament, with the HRPP and FAST each tied on 25 seats, with independent Tuala Iosefo Ponifasio holding the balance of power. . Ponifasio later joined the FAST Party, [4] [5] [6] but in the interim the Samoan Electoral Commission controversially declared the HRPP's Ali'imalemanu Alofa Tuuau elected due to the requirement that a minimum of 10% of ...
General elections were held in Tonga on 16 November 2017 [1] to elect 17 of the 26 seats to the Legislative Assembly. [2] King Tupou VI dissolved the Assembly on 25 August 2017 on the advice of its Speaker, Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō, who claimed that Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pohiva was attempting to claim powers held by the King and Privy Council within Cabinet.
Politics of Samoa takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic state whereby the Prime Minister of Samoa is the head of government.Existing alongside the country's Western-styled political system is the faʻamatai chiefly system of socio-political governance and organisation, central to understanding Samoa's political system.
[6] [7] During the previous election held in 2016, the HRPP won a landslide re-election, winning 35 seats, including an extra seat established to fulfil the female parliamentary quota. The opposition Tautua Samoa Party (TSP) only won two seats down from 13 in the 2011 election, [8] [9] and the party's leader Palusalue Faʻapo II lost his seat. [10]
Three by-elections were held in the Tongan electorates of Tongatapu 4, Tongatapu 6, and Tongatapu 7 on 3 November 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The by-elections were triggered by the unseating of cabinet ministers Tatafu Moeaki , Poasi Tei , and Sione Sangster Saulala for bribery following the 2021 Tongan general election .