Fiji Election 2022

2022 - 12 - 14

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Latest provisional results (FBC News)

The latest provisional results continue to be released by the Supervisor of Elections. The People's Alliance has received 32, 955 votes, FijiFirst has 18, ...

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2022 General Election: Glitch with FEO results app; provisional ... (Fiji Times)

The Fijian Elections Office's announcement of provisional results has been temporarily halted after a glitch in its results app.

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Fiji Elections Office app back online after glitch (RNZ)

The Fiji Elections Office app is back online after a glitch late Wednesday evening forced the suspension of provisional results.

So, we believe that they have full confidence in the system." "The situation occurred because of the termination of a data transfer. Of course, with the results that are provisional right now, we are uploading you know with the result management system data directly," Saneem explained.

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Provisional results from 1070 of 2071 stations released (Fijivillage)

Independent Candidates Rajendra Prasad and Ravinesh Reddy have 106 and 49 votes respectively. Fijian Elections app taken down for now and results will soon be ...

The Supervisor says they had deleted the data that had been published and then re-uploaded the data on the app and now they have published it again. He says the result management system is an offline system and the staging laptop is used to transmit the result to the app and the website. He says this is to ensure that we can verify the data as they do not want this to happen on the app again.

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2022 General Election: Latest provisional results from FEO - The Fiji ... (Fiji Times)

Fiji First leads the provisional results by party with 162,084 votes – according to the latest result released by the Fijian Elections Office (FEO) this ...

- Ravinesh Reddy (independent) – 69 (0.0 per cent) - Rajendra Prasad (independent) – 130 (0.0 per cent) - Fiji Labour Party – 10,358 (2.9 per cent)

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Fiji national election a tight race in early provisional counting (Reuters)

Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama's Fiji First nudged ahead of the main opposition party, according to partial results from the Pacific island nation's ...

The rising cost of living and the economy were major issues for voters, he said. Fiji's Attorney General and Fiji First general secretary Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum wrote on Facebook: "Vote tallying isn't a sprint - it's a marathon. His Fiji First party had attracted 44.87% of votes as of 2 a.m. "The nature of democracy has been under question for some time - not all democracies are perfect and Fiji is trying, this is part of Fiji's journey of moving to a more democratic system," Singh said. "Critics of Fiji First feel that this one party has been in power for too long and maybe it's time for a change," Singh told Reuters in a telephone interview. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

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Fiji election tests PM Bainimarama's long hold on power (benarnews)

People wait to vote in Fiji's election at a polling station in Suva on Dec. 14, 2022. Stephen Wright/BenarNews. Fijians voted Wednesday in an election ...

Fiji, with a population of nearly 1 million, is the second most populous Pacific island nation after Papua New Guinea. Freedom House, which promotes civil rights and democracy, says a repressive climate in Fiji eased following the 2014 election. Bainimarama was in a combative mood when he voted in the capital Suva. It has about 90 officials monitoring the election. Both are former military men who came to power in coups that have defined Fjiian politics since the late 1980s. The People’s Alliance had nearly 33% and a smaller party allied with it had 9%.

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'Anomaly' Derails Fiji Election Count (Barron's)

Fiji's election count was plagued by a long delay and technical breakdown Thursday, as former coup leader turned prime minister Frank Bainimarama aimed to ...

"I think he will not. "Some people say it's time for a change," he told AFP from a voting centre on the outskirts of Suva. "Something for the younger ones, because they will be the ones leading the future," she told AFP from a voting booth at a Suva school. So I'm hoping for a flood of votes in our favour, so that it makes any attempt at that course futile," he said. Asked whether he would accept the outcome, win or lose, Bainimarama said "of course" as he cast his ballot in the capital Suva with his granddaughter in tow. In a hastily-arranged press conference in the early hours of Thursday morning, election supervisor Mohammed Saneem said vote counters had detected an "anomaly".

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Counting begins in Fiji national election after technical problems ... (ABC News)

A final count of votes in Fiji's national election begins after an official results publishing app was plagued with technical problems overnight.

However, it is still too early to know for sure what the final result will be," she said. "It may well have an impact on public confidence in the election and it will almost certainly have an impact on confidence in the Office of Elections and Saneem as Supervisor." "What we had to do was we had to delete the data that had been published, and then we had to then re-upload the data on the app," Mr Saneem said. "We have no faith really in the recommencement of the count after the glitch," he said. He said the glitch occurred during an upload of data to the mobile app, which caused a mismatch of some candidates' identification numbers between the data processing system and the mobile app. Counting of the provisional votes in the elections result app was suspended late last night after the FEO reported a glitch.

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Fiji election: Frank Bainimarama's FijiFirst claims provisional lead ... (Stuff.co.nz)

An early count of more than half the polling stations puts Bainimarama's FijiFirst party on 46% and Sitiveni Rabuka's People's Alliance on 33%.

Rabuka has apologised for his coup, saying he's a changed man. We cannot rule forever. “We cannot live forever. *

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Early Fiji election count points to change (Shepparton News)

Early results have Sitiveni Rabuka ahead of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama as counting begins in Fiji's national election..

Rabuka has apologised for his coup, saying he is a changed man. "We are one people. the 50-year-old said. Bainimarama said he would "of course" respect the outcome of the democratic election when he cast his vote but concerns over a possible coup remain in a nation marred by takeovers. "We cannot live forever. We cannot rule forever.

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2022 General Election: Fijians have their say - The Fiji Times (Fiji Times)

There was no better example of Fijians wanting to have a say in who should lead the country for the next four years than Fiji's oldest voter, 108-year-old ...

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Provisional results in Fiji election show ruling party in the lead (RNZ)

The official count for the 2022 Fiji polls is now underway and there are early signs incumbent Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama could lead his FijiFirst ...

"We have to see how the results change and we noted that it was in the process where we were transferring the data from the staging laptop to the app. "Don't worry about the Results App. The People's Alliance Party leader, Sitiveni Rabuka has criticised the provisional vote count. They suddenly got a lot of those votes in the app. This caused the vote numbers for certain candidates to change. Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa), which was the major opposition in Parliament after the past two elections, received 16,202 votes (4.6 percent) which would not be enough to enter parliament.

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Fiji's ruling party leads provisional count after national election (Reuters)

The ruling Fiji First party led provisional national election results, boosted by a 31.42% vote for Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, with half of polling ...

to show The provisional result showed Fiji First with 45.88% of votes at 7 a.m. Rabuka told reporters at a press conference on Thursday his party was "not satisfied with the outcome after the break, after the glitch last night" and is writing to the Supervisor of Elections, the army commander and Fiji's president. It had shown a People's Alliance Party candidate leading, before the app was taken offline for several hours and returned at 2 a.m. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story Thursday, ahead of the People's Alliance Party with 32.66% of votes, while the National Federation Party had 9.29% of votes.

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Fiji election: opposition leader disputes results as vote count continues (The Guardian)

Sitiveni Rabuka calls for calm, while his claims of irregularities are rebuffed by election supervisors.

“Hence the vote numbers changed for certain candidates who suddenly got a lot of votes in the app,” he said. Rabuka’s complaint stems from what the elections supervisor said was a glitch in the app used to display updated voting results. The claims from Rabuka were rebuffed by Fiji’s election supervisor, Mohammed Saneem, who blamed the glitch on voter data being uploaded to the app, rather than incorrect polling data within the system.

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First set of final results released (FBC News)

The Fijian Elections Office has released the first set of final results for the 2022 General Election. The People's Alliance currently leads with 654 votes, ...

Meanwhile, seven candidates from the People’s Alliance are in the top 10 spots in the first set of final results of the 2022 General Election. The Fijian Elections Office has released the first set of final results for the 2022 General Election. The People’s Alliance currently leads with 654 votes, Fiji First with 257 votes, Social Democratic Liberal Party with 104 votes and Unity Fiji with 67 votes.

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Election results app goes dark in Fiji, comes back with tally reversed (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Opposition leader Sitiveni Rabuka says the new data didn't match the raw information his party had from polling stations.

But his majority from the 2018 election sat at just 50.02 per cent after falling from almost 60 per cent in 2014. Bainimarama said he would “of course” respect the outcome of the democratic election. Rabuka said he had extended an invitation to include SODELPA – the party he led before he was ousted as leader – in a coalition. He said an interruption during the transfer of data to the app mismatched data to the wrong candidates. He said the data had to be re-uploaded, which fixed the “anomaly”. He said he did not have faith in the Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem to remain impartial.

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Fiji's opposition to challenge election results (Aljazeera.com)

Fiji's opposition leader has filed a complaint at the country's elections commission over provisional vote results. Sitiveni Rabuka's coalition was ahead in ...

it will probably be asking for legal redress and for the court to adjudicate,” he said. “And all parties will be concerned with processes being conducted in a transparent and open manner. “So, technical glitches and other minor irregularities, will be attracting a lot of scrutiny.” He said there had been a “mismatch” between votes cast and the tallies published for some candidates – with a few relatively obscure figures polling well ahead of the major parties. “I have to be convinced that it is the correct result. When the results came back online four hours later, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama’s Fiji First party was in the lead and projected to win the bitterly fought

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2022 General Election: Four Fiji party leaders call for immediate stop ... (Fiji Times)

A call has been made by four political parties for the immediate stop in the tallying of votes for the 2022 General Election.

“The Supervisor of Elections subsequently reduced the votes of the leading candidate from 15,000 to 63.” In a joint press conference with some other party leaders this afternoon, The People Alliance Party leader Sitiveni Rabuka said: “We now call for an immediate halt in the tallying of votes until an urgent forensic audit of the elections system is conducted.” A call has been made by four political parties for the immediate stop in the tallying of votes for the 2022 General Election.

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