Head of State Decrees

Samoa Law Society submission reproves Head of State's decrees

The Samoa Law Society, in its submission to Friday's Court of Appeal hearing to expedite an end to the country's Constitutional and electoral crisis, was clear that the Head of State is bound as the faithful servant of the Constitution and not its master.

It submitted that the Head of State, whose office is a creation of the Constitution, was obliged to do its bidding.

Part of that bidding is to ensure that parliament convene within 45 days from a General Election. His Highness had frustrated multiple attempts for this to happen since the 9 April ballot.