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samoa**

H.E. Faimalomatumua Mathew Lemisio,
Electoral Commissioner, OEC

part i part ii

CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Official Name LEGISLATURE
The Independent State of Samoa
1. Structure of National Legislature
2. Government Unicameral
Parliamentary Republic
2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
3. Head of the State Designation Fono / Legislative Assembly
President Va’aletoa Sualauvi II
3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
4. Head of the Government Designation nominated
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi 50 seats for 2016-2021 term); members from
49 single-seat constituencies directly elected
5. Capital by simple majority vote and 1 seat for a woman,
Apia added for the 2016 election to meet the mandated

6. Currenc 10% representation of women in the Assembly;
Samoan tālā members serve 5-year terms

4. Popular House
7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population)
Samoan 96%, Samoan/New Zealander 2%, other Fono / Legislative Assembly
1.9% (2011 est.) 5. Type of Electoral System

8. Date of Independence and from which Country FPTP
1 January 1962 (from New Zealand-administered part iii
UN trusteeship
ELECtorAL sYstEM
9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution
1 January 1962
(A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy
10. Language (s)
Samoan (Polynesian) (official) 91.1%, Somoan/ 1. Name of the EMB(S)
English 6.7%, English (official) 0.5%, other 0.2%, The Office Of The Electoral Commission (OEC)
unspecified 1.6% (2006 est.)
2. Website Address
11. Literacy Levels www.oec.gov.ws
99 %

AU-5U-4 301 **Draft. EMB has been requested to update the draft. Response awaited.
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