{"id":105734,"date":"2025-10-06T21:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/105734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:32:30","slug":"samoa-declares-economic-emergency-over-budget-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/105734\/","title":{"rendered":"Samoa declares \u2018economic emergency\u2019 over Budget crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>30 Sep, 2025 02:21 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"m-0\">Share this article<\/p>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Twitter\/X<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">LinkedIn<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Reddit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Samoa&#8217;s financial crisis was triggered by the failure to pass an Appropriation Bill to keep funds available. Photo \/ RNZ, Mark Papalii<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Samoa\u2019s head of state has declared a 30-day state of emergency because of a financial crisis triggered by the failure to pass an Appropriation Bill, as outlined under the country\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Tuimaleali\u2019ifano Va\u2019aleto\u2019a Eti Sualauvi II has issued a Proclamation of Emergency \u2013 dated September 26 \u2013 under<br \/>\n         Article 105 of Samoa\u2019s Constitution.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"OpntLyIinEMzNVPdR\" style=\"display:none\">The Emergency Budget, effective from September 30 to October 29, will allow the Government to access funds from the Treasury to ensure Government operations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OpntLyIinEMzNVPdR\" style=\"display:none\">According to the Government\u2019s Savali newspaper, the failure to pass Appropriation Bill earlier this year led to an early election and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/government\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/government\">the Government entering caretaker mode<\/a>, leading to the country operating on 25% of the Budget for the next financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 30 Sep, 2025 02:21 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[10471,79,20084,66349,5781,179,18,687,19,17,17707,66348],"class_list":{"0":"post-105734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-declares","12":"tag-economic","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-emergency","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-over","19":"tag-samoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}