The outgoing Samoan government on May 24 blocked Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata’afa from entering Parliament House to be sworn in, pushing Samoa into its biggest constitutional crisis in decades. May 24 was the last day Fiame and her incoming governing party, Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST), could legally be inducted into power under the Samoan constitution, which gives 45 days for the change of government to occur. Despite being locked out, Fiame held a swearing-in ceremony on the lawn outside the Parliament, without the head of state, judiciary, and opposition MPs, the New Zealand Herald reported. But the Samoan attorney-general declared the ceremony illegal. Caretaker Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has accused Fiame, who was his former deputy prime minister, of treason and staging a coup—this is despite the Supreme Court declaring FAST the legitimate winner after it gained more seats than Tuilaepa’s Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP). “This is treason and …