Re-election

Samoa's Head of State Tuimalealiifano Va’aletoa Sualauvi II called for the election​ on the 21st May to end the deadlock following last month's election.

Both the ruling Human Rights Protection Party and opposing Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) Party are tied on 26 seats each.

Massey University political analyst Dr Christina Laalaai-Tausa says caretaker Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.​Tuilaepa is not willing to accept his defeat.

Rawlings-Blake made the announcement Friday at a news conference called only 90 minutes earlier, a move that comes just days after officials said the city would pay Freddie Gray's family $6.4 million to settle civil claims over his spinal injury.