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Elections In Samoa
At the national level, Samoa elects a legislature. The Fono or ''Legislative Assembly'' has 51 members elected for a five-year term from 51 electoral constituencies. Prior to 2019, the Legislative Assembly has 49 members, 47 members out of the ''fa'amatai, matai'' (traditional heads of families) six of whom are elected from two-seat constituencies and 35 from single-seat Electoral Constituencies of Samoa, constituencies, and 2 members by the non-Samoan nationals. The O le Ao o le Malo, head of state is elected for a five-year term by the Fono. The voting age in Samoa is 21. Samoa has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties. Latest election *2021 Samoan by-elections By-elections Below is a list of recent by-elections: See also * Electoral calendar * Electoral system External links Elections in SamoaAdam Carr's Election Archive {{Samoa topics Elections in Samoa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tofilau Eti Alesana
Tofilau Eti Alesana (born ''Aualamalefalelima Alesana''; 4 June 1924 – 19 March 1999) was a Samoan politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Samoa from 1982 to 1985, and again from 1988 until his resignation in 1998. Biography Background Alesana was born in Vaitogi, Tutuila, American Samoa into a Samoan upper-class family. At the age of 24, he became a clan chief.Fraser, Helen. (25 March 1999). "Pacific reformer and conciliator." ''The Australian''. p. 016. Alesana's parents, Alesana James Enoka and Vaoita Iosefa Mala’itai, were pastors in Vaitogi. He was the youngest of twelve children and was given the birth name Aualamalefalelima, which is the traditional salutation of the tulafales of Vaitogi village. He attended schools on Tutuila and Upolu islands. He later joined the New Zealand Defense Force in Western Samoa during World War II, and worked in Fagatogo, American Samoa after the war ended. His parents moved with him to Savaiʻi to be a matai in the villag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Anoama'a East By-election
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aiono Tile Gafa
Aiono Fina'i Tile Gafa (born ~1961) is a Samoan politician. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party. Aiono was educated at Fasito'o-uta Primary School and Leulumoega Fou College. He lived in New Zealand and Australia, then returned to Samoa in the 1980s, where he worked for the Peace Corps. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the 2004 A'ana Alofi No 1 By-election. He was re-elected at the 2006 election. He lost his seat at the 2011 election. He stood unsuccessfully at the 2016 election, after which he lodged an electoral petition alleging corruption and bribery against Speaker of the House Leaupepe Toleafoa Faafisi. The petition was later withdrawn. He unsuccessfully contested the 2021 election. He was re-elected to Parliament in the 2021 Samoan by-elections Six simultaneous by-elections were held in Samoa on 26 November 2021. They were called in the aftermath of the 2021 Samoan general election, which resulted in seven seats being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 A'ana Alofi No 1 By-election
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiata Sili Pulufana
Tiata was a village in Murcia, Spain and is now an eastern hamlet in the city of Lorca. It is part of the municipality of Lorca. Tiata is located adjacent to the hamlets of Sutullena, Campillo and Torrecilla. It is located on the banks of the Rego de Porlǎn. According to local folklore, it was in this area known as "Los Reales" de Lorca where King Fernando III, King of Castilla y León and his son, Prince Alfonso X, camped his Christian armies to carry out the conquest of the Muslim stronghold of Lorca in 1244. The Santuario Nuestra Señora la Real de las Huertas (Convent and Sanctuary of the Virgen de las Huertas), an 18th century Fransciscan convent A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The term is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican ... and church is located in Tiata. References Lorca, Spain Populated pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Fa’asalele’aga No 1 By-election
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Alataua West By-election
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
