Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Prime Minister of Samoa from 1998 to 2021
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He held Samoa's top office for 23 years, then lost an election and wouldn't leave — triggering a constitutional crisis that ended only when the courts forced him out and installed his successor.
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Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, born 14 February 1944, is a Samoan economist who entered parliament in 1981 after winning a by-election for Lepā. He rose quickly to deputy prime minister and finance minister under Tofilau Eti Alesana, also holding tourism and trade portfolios. When Tofilau resigned in 1998, Tuilaepa became prime minister and leader of the Human Rights Protection Party, a position he held until 2021. After the HRPP lost its majority that year, he refused to concede, sparking a crisis resolved only when Samoa's Court of Appeal ruled on 23 July that Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa had b…
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