24 May 2021

Samoa in constitutional crisis: Tuilaepa unwilling to let go

From Checkpoint, 5:19 pm on 24 May 2021

Samoa has plunged deep into an unprecedented constitutional and political crisis.

A dramatic series of developments in Apia have added new twists to Samoa's protracted election.

The party which emerged from April's poll with a majority, FAST, has sought to form government, but Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi appears unwilling to let go of power.

RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana reports.