19 Dec 2022

Fiji election results mean coalition government needed

From Morning Report, 8:26 am on 19 December 2022

The results for the 2022 Fiji election are in.

While Frank Bainimarama's FijiFirst party has secured the most votes with more than 200,000, he has failed to secure an outright majority.
 
That means Fiji will have a coalition government.
 
Bainimarama's main rival, Sitiveni Rabuka's The People's Alliance Party, is also hoping to secure the 28 seats needed to form a government.
 
The decision now rests with the main opposition in the previous two parliamentary terms, The Social Democratic Liberal Party, or Sodelpa.
 
RNZ Pacific's Lydia Lewis reports: