sitting of parliament rather than after the subsequent general election. Another major area of contention was the expansion of Cabinet from eight to thirteen members, and the inclusion of under secretaries (deputy ministers), which was seen as depleting the backbench. In 1990 she introduced a motion for the introduction of universal suffrage while in parliament but was not supported by her own party. After the defeat of the motion, both the HRPP and the coalition under Tupuola Efi and Vaai Kolone promised to introduce universal suffrage if they gained power in the following election. When the HRPP retained power following that election, in which Matatumua lost her seat, the HRPP introduced the bill and Tofilau Eti Alesana claimed credit for the introduction of universal suffrage. As Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, she often questioned and criticized the government's fiscal policies and practices as well what she saw as its deliberate lack of accountability to parliament. Eventually she resigned from the HRPP and founded SAPP. which has never attained any seats in parliament. She served as Member of Parliament of the electoral constituency of Aana No.1 from 1982 to 1984, during which she was a member of the Bills Committee, and from 1991 to 1995, during which she was deputy chair of the Public Accounts Committee. See also Fa'amatai, chiefly system of Samoa Faletoese Lipano, paternal grandfather Le Mamea Makalau, paternal great uncle Teo Tuvale, paternal great uncle Le Mamea Matatumua Ata, father Faalelei Masinalupe, mother Walter Vermeulen, husband Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa, sister Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II, brother-in-law Nonumalo Sofara, brother-in-law Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, niece Hinauri Petana, niece (High Commissioner to Australia) References Samoan chiefs Maimoaga, Matatumua 1935 births 2012 deaths Samoan women in politics Human Rights Protection Party politicians 20th-century women politicians Mataʻafa family