Fiji election

2022 - 12 - 15

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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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Official counting for the Fiji election is underway (RNZ)

The incumbent party Fiji First is leading so far, with just over 162,000 votes, around 45% of the total count. RNZ Pacific reporter Kelvin Anthony spoke to ...

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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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Fijians vote in election between 2 former coup leaders (CTV News)

Fijians voted Wednesday in an election that pitted two former military coup leaders against each other at a time the nation is trying to recover from a ...

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Early Fiji election count points to change (South Coast Register)

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. "We cannot live forever. We cannot rule forever. 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.

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Fijian Elections app taken down for now and results will soon be ... (Fijivillage)

Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem says they have taken down the Fijian Elections Office app as People's Alliance candidate, Peceli Vosanibola had ...

Saneem said he will comment later. Saneem says they will give a full statement later. Saneem says they will start the app again but they will also have printouts of the provisional results management system on their facebook page as well.

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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 Peopleโ€™s Alliance had nearly 33% and a smaller party allied with it had 9%.

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Counting begins in Fiji national election (swissinfo.ch)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Polling closed in the Pacific island nation of Fiji's national election on Wednesday evening, where voter turnout of less than 60 per ...

The rising cost of living and the economy were major issues for voters, he said. "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 its time for a change," Singh told Reuters in a telephone interview after polling closed on Wednesday.

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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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