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

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

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. That was despite the FAST Party of newly elected Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt (widely known as La’auli) having won…