Samoa’s First Female Prime Minister Finally Concedes She Lost the Election

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Samoa’s First Female Prime Minister Finally Concedes She Lost the Election

Samoa’s newly elected Prime Minister, FAST Party leader La’aulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt. FAST Party

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.

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