•Samoa is a parliamentary democracy with a unicameral legislative assembly consisting of 49 members of which 5 are to be held by women.
•General elections are held every 5 years with the most recent in March 2016.
•The Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) is the current ruling party with only one opposition party in parliament, the Tautua Party.
•Samoa has a Westminster legal system based on the English legal system as adopted by many Commonwealth states.