Allies turned adversaries: Samoa’s former deputy PM to challenge her former leader

The most stable democracy in the Pacific is undergoing a seismic political shift as the country approaches elections next year

Samoa’s former deputy prime minister will run against her former party of 35 years, and the prime minister she served under, when she contests next year’s election as an independent candidate.

The most prominent and powerful female politician in Samoa’s independent history, and the daughter of the country’s first prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa quit as deputy prime minister and as a member of the government last month. It also meant she left the Human Rights Protection party (HRPP) of which she had been a member of since 1985.

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