No concrete evidence given by 5 parties as FijiFirst set to form the next govt

The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Chen Bunn Young has revealed that there is still no concrete evidence provided to the Electoral Commission to back the allegations made by five political parties.

The five parties failed to deliver any form of evidence last night despite a 5pm dead-line given by the Electoral Commission.

The Fiji Labour Party, the Social Democratic Liberal Party, the National Federation Party, the People’s Democratic Party and One Fiji Party claim that the allegations are serious and warrant an investigation.

The parties have sent letters to the President of Fiji, the Electoral Commission and the Supervisor of Elections.

People’s Democratic Party President Lynda Tabuya claims that they have some photographs and other details but they will leave it to the Electoral Commission to make the decision.

Tabuya said they are still documenting fifty alleged cases such as a village being unable to vote because a polling booth was not set up.

The name of the village has not been given to us.

Tabuya also refused to comment when we asked her why this issue was not raised on polling day on Wednesday.

Fijivillage has also questioned Tabuya on what the parties are planning to do as they have said that they will not accept the election results.

We asked her if this means that the parties that qualify to be in the opposition will not take up their parliamentary seats after the allocation of the seats.

Tabuya said they cannot say much on what would happen when parliament sits.

According to the constitution, the quorum required for a parliamentary sitting is one third.

Based on provisional results from 70 percent of the polling stations, the current percentage of seats that the FijiFirst is likely to have if the trend continues is 60 percent which means that parliament can still sit if the opposition parties decide not to enter parliament.

As announced on Thursday by Fijivillage, the FijiFirst is likely to have 33 seats, SODELPA 14 seats and NFP 3 seats if the current trend from the provisional results continue for the final results.

However this could change and the ranking of candidates could change based on the votes they get individually.

Meanwhile the final results are being released by polling stations.

We are updating them right here  on our website, fijivillage.com and we will bring you the final National Results Tally when the full results are in later this afternoon or tonight.

According to the final official results released so far for 1,053 of 2,025 polling stations, the FijiFirst has 149,390 votes, SODELPA has 78,188 votes, NFP has 14,427 votes.

This means FijiFirst has 57.2 percent of the total votes, SODELPA has 29.9 percent while NFP has 5.5 percent.

PDP has 3.3 percent of the votes, Fiji Labour Party has 2.3 percent, One Fiji has 1.3 percent.

Roshika Deo has 597 votes while Umesh Chand has 111 votes.

According to the official final results, 261, 374 votes have been counted so far.

Stay with us for the final results tally and the allocation of the parliamentary seats.