Georg Ebner
Non-Aligned
Roman romantic reactionary Catholic
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Post by Georg Ebner on Apr 18, 2021 15:51:31 GMT
Elections were happening already weeks ago. I wanted to make a map for us, but the constituency-numbers at en.wikipedia were useless and the EC-site didn't (and doesn't) work (i guess, they are all celebrating there...). But now i found a map:  "2020" is obviously wrong, but the numbers seem to be right: The "eternal" governing party HRPP was far ahead, but suffered from high margins or several candidates running in 1 constituency. |
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Post by minionofmidas on Apr 18, 2021 16:04:25 GMT
This is a hilarious result.
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Post by minionofmidas on Apr 18, 2021 16:09:15 GMT
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Post by yellowperil on May 24, 2021 14:25:50 GMT
As far as I can see, nobody has followed up on the further developments from this election (thought there might have been a thread in the international politics section, but doesn't seem to be). As I understand it, there was an attempt to install the new prime minister but she, and the chief justice, were locked out of the parliament building so went ahead with the swearing-in in a marquee. Anybody have further background on this?
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Post by minionofmidas on May 25, 2021 3:51:33 GMT
As far as I can see, nobody has followed up on the further developments from this election (thought there might have been a thread in the international politics section, but doesn't seem to be). As I understand it, there was an attempt to install the new prime minister but she, and the chief justice, were locked out of the parliament building so went ahead with the swearing-in in a marquee. Anybody have further background on this? haven't heard of that (will look now) but this happened in the interim (lazily crossposting from elsewhere) New election in four days FYI. No. Tuuau was the most narrowly defeated woman candidate, whom the government had declared additionally elected to get the female share up above the constitutionally mandated 10% minimum. Helpfully she was a government candidate. For the snap elections the ptb had intended that no new candidates could file but old ones could, and did, withdraw, thus getting rid of most of the intraparty votesplitting. The april parliament was dissolved without ever having met. Oh, this is beautiful the advice being that of the outgoing gov't of course. As to Tuuau's seat, the court just reasoned that 10% of 51 is 5, not 6. Can't really agree. |
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Post by minionofmidas on May 25, 2021 4:13:10 GMT
And now the old fool, with his President acting as sidekick, is simply refusing to go. Thank the Lord (I would substitute an appropriate local deity but Samoa nowadays is a very Evangelical place) Samoa is one of the few countries intelligent enough to keep no army.
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Post by johnloony on Dec 8, 2021 2:38:48 GMT
I must have not noticed this kerfuffle happening at the time, but I've just caught up with it. The eventual outcome was that on 23rd July, the Court of Appeal said that the new government had been in existence since 24th May. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Samoan_constitutional_crisis |
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