Samoa's new Prime Minister moves quickly after historic court decision

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Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, Samoa's first female Prime Minister, says her government will formally take office next week, with the country's Court of Appeal affirming her government is legal.

Samoa's first female Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, says her government will formally take office next week, with the country's Court of Appeal affirming her government is legal.Fiame's Cabinet is expected to formally take office on Tuesday to pass a temporary budget

, Fiame said on Saturday Parliament would meet at the earliest opportunity next week to pass a temporary budget to keep the government running, giving her and her Cabinet time to review the country's financial and economic circumstances. Samoa, which relies on subsistence farming along with tourism and fish and coconut product exports, has had to depend on foreign aid and is heavily indebted to China, which offered to back a port development by the previous government., calling the $128 million project excessive for a small country already deep in debt.

 

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Christians such as the former PM Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi don’t readily give up power. Christianity cannot survive unless it reinstalls monarchs to complete the Divine Rule equation of church & state.

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