By Mataeliga Pio Sioa
The Prime Minister did well in Parliament on Tuesday slowing the nations heartbeat down to normal.
High blood pressures too thank goodness.
Breaths were held as the PM calmly admitted her FAST party is in shambles, struggling with confidence issues in her leadership.
She had party chairman Laauli and his legal criminal charges to thank for bringing all of that about.
But rather than shoulder the burden of decision making on whether to continue her leadership or not, she loaded it on to the House to decide for her.
Good one Madam PM. Classy.
Herein ends this particular chapter in our on going leadership mystery thriller.
The new one opens with whether there will or will not be any confidence vote taken in the House.
Honestly! Don’t bet on it.
Laauli and his FAST followers do not have the numbers to pull that off like they did inside the party against the PM.
Good luck trying to team up with the opposition if he wants to go to that extreme.
The HRPP are happy to sit back and savour the spectacle. Why spoil the rare treat of watching Fiame and Laauli bomb the FAST unity into bits.
Overall though, what should matter most is the general elections are still more than a year left to go.
Right there is the BOTTOMLINE.
This is build up year and MPs are starting to ease into the all familiar pace of sweetening up the electorate vote for re-election in 2026.
So…..! What madness is this rush to a snap general elections when there is no need to?
What do or die issue that cannot wait until the clock runs out as it should be on the current sitting Parliament?
Still want to bet on the House calling a vote of no confidence on PM Fiame so they can sprint to the election polls?
Lest we forget! The people who decides for that to happen are inside the House.
Where that leaves us the people and our power of the vote is a question that may come up.
How about going with the flow? Nothing new there?
Indeed we wield the power of either doom and gloom or intoxicating triumph for our MPs, but what next when and after we do?
We can flow into a snap general elections but that is not for us to decide. Lets not forget that people.
The crowd inside our Mulinu’u upturned Wok House decides for us.
Are we really going to the polls? Is there going to be one?
Well…why don’t we make that the punchline for this whole snap election joke?