FILE PHOTO: Samoan Prime Minister Afioga Fiame Naomi Mata'afa speaking at the annual Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration at Westminster Abbey, in London. March 10, 2025. Aaron Chown/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Samoa's parliament will dissolve on June 3 and the Pacific Island nation will hold an election at an unspecified date, Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa said on Wednesday.
Fiame was unable to gain enough support to pass budget legislation in parliament on Monday and said in a statement that she had advised Samoa's head of state, Afioga Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II, that parliament should be dissolved.
