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| Voters in Suva today. Photo: Wansolwara |
PRIME MINISTER Voreqe Bainimarama took an early lead in provisional results in the Fiji general election tonight.
With provisional results from 43 out of 2025 polling stations processed, the Fiji First leader topped the five best-placed candidates with 2339 votes, well ahead of rival SODELPA’s Ro Teimumu Kepa with 628.
But in the party stakes, Fiji First held a narrow lead with 48.3 percent while SODELPA had 42.1 percent.
This is the first election in Fiji since Bainimarama staged a military coup in 2006.
Alistar Kata is a member of the student journalism team covering the Fiji elections as part of their Asia-Pacific Journalism course at the Pacific Media Centre. She is on internship with Wansolwara while her colleagues are Mads Anneberg with the Republika in Suva and Thomas Carnegie and Pacific Media Watch editor Anna Majavu with the PMC in Auckland.
Their story archive is at Pacific Scoop. Read on with the Live Blog:
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