The Samoa National Democratic Party is a political party in

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

. Its leader is

Valasi Toogamaga Tafito Valasi Luapitofanua Toogamaga Tafito Selesele is a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He is leader of the Samoa National Democratic Party. Tafito was elected to the Fono as a candidate for the Samoan Democratic United Party in the 1996 Sa ...

. The party was registered in late 2019 and claims to be a recreation of the old

Samoan National Development Party The Samoan National Development Party (SNDP) was a political party in Samoa, and the country's main opposition party between 1988 and 2003. The party was formed from a merger of the Christian Democratic Party and Samoa National Party in April 1988 ...

, which was Samoa's main opposition between 1988 and 2003. Its major policy issues are customary land rights, unemployment, and the enfranchisement of overseas Samoans. The party aims to contest the

April 2021 Samoan general election April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. It is the first of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the second of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. April is commonly associated with ...

. In May 2020 it announced that it had recruited 17 candidates. On 2 September 2020 the party announced it would join forces with the Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi and

Tumua ma Puleono Tumua ma Puleono is a political party in Samoa. The party is named for the traditional honorifics of Upolu and Savaii, the two main islands of Samoa. Its secretary is John Peterson. The party opposes controversial constitutional amendments prop ...

parties to contest the 2021 election. SNDP and Tumua ma Puleono candidates will run under the FAST banner, with only one candidate in each constituency.

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Political parties in Samoa Political parties established in 2019 {{Samoa-party-stub