Apia, Samoa – 23 July 2025 – The Court is to determine the eligibility of over 100 voters of the Falealupo Constituency next Wednesday. This follows a complaint by a candidate for next month’s general election that these voters should not be eligible to vote as there are not from the constituency.
The voters are included in the Provisional Voters Roll for the Falealupo constituency after the required documentations were submitted with confirmation by the village representatives and approved by the Electoral Office.
The Electoral Office is now screening all the rolls since the voters registrations closed two weeks ago, and the final rolls will be released in mid-August.
The Electoral Commissioner, Toleafoa Tuiafelolo John Stanley confirmed today the complaints against the Falealupo voters will be determined in court on 30 July.
Political Parties on the Campaign Trail
Meanwhile, the major political parties, FAST and HRPP are both on the campaign trail at Savaii this week.
FAST launched its Manifesto in Savaii on 12 July and has already completed public rallies in 10 individual constituencies in Savaii last week. Yesterday the party met with the Faleaupo constituency in a rally at the Feiloa’imauso Stadium built with financial assistance under the FAST Government $1M District Development Project initiative.
HRPP started its Savaii rallies on Monday this week; combining several constituencies and went into the Falealupo constituency Wednesday morning.
The FAST Party mobile campaign images graduating from vans in 2021 to two 40 seaters carrying its 61 candidates to meet all the 51 constituencies in its 2025 campaign.
Roadshows a FAST initiative
The FAST Party started the idea of the political roadshows in the lead up to the 2021 general elections but it was ran down by the HRPP leadership as a foreign idea and also blocked FAST candidates’ billboards and rallies in the constituencies HRPP dominated.
The FAST campaign approach of going to meet the individual constituencies, maintains the age-old customs of consultation based on recognition and respect of the village chiefs authority and the whole district, as the voters maintain the power to install and remove a government through their vote.
With very limited and shunned access to the mainstream media in 2021, FAST employed a multi-media campaign strategy based on social media that livestreamed its roadshows and campaign messages from all the 51 electoral constituencies that quickly built and solidified local and the Samoan diaspora support.
With the 2021 election result, HRPP soon followed and tried to employ the FAST media campaign strategy in the by elections held afterwards.
Both parties are completing their public rallies in Savaii this Friday and will continue in Upolu Island next week.
The FAST Party is launching its Manifesto in Apia on Monday and followed by rallies in all 31 constituencies in Upolu as the countdown to the August 29 general elections intensifies.
