She Was Supposed to Become Prime Minister. Instead She Was Locked Out of Parliament.
She Was Supposed to Become Prime Minister but Was Locked Out of Parliament A constitutional crisis deepened in the Pacific Island nation of Samoa, which now has two competing governments and two claimants to the prime ministership. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa taking her oath at an unofficial ceremony outside Parliament House in Apia, Samoa, on Monday.Credit...Anetone Sagaga/Samoa Observer, via Associated Press May 24, 2021Updated 7:27 a.m. ET Fiame Naomi Mata’afa walked toward Samoa’s beehive-shaped Parliament House on Monday morning intending to be sworn in as the first female prime minister ...