FEO Issues 144A Notice to Facebook Account Namely Jay Jay

The Fijian Elections Office [“FEO”] has today requested Facebook to shut down an account which is known by the name of “Jay Jay” on Facebook, because this account is spreading misinformation around candidate numbers for the elections. The FEO has specifically noted...

Alexander O’Connor referred to FICAC

The Supervisor of Elections has referred the FijiFirst candidate, Mr. Alexander O’Connor to the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption [‘FICAC’] for probable breach of Section 113(3), (4) and 141 of the Electoral Act 2014. “A Medical Officer had complained to...

Reminder- Postal Voting Applications Closing

The Fijian Elections Office [‘FEO’] reminds voters that Postal Voting Applications for the 2022 General Election will close at 5.00pm tomorrow, 23 November 2022. Supervisor of Elections Mr Mohammed Saneem has urged voters who qualify under Postal Voting to apply now...

Nominations Update

The Supervisor of Elections, following clarifications received from the National Federation Party [‘NFP’] has approved the candidature of three (3) more NFP candidates making the total number to 54. One candidate from the NFP has been rejected due to...

99 Candidates Approved so far

Following the verification exercise, the Supervisor of Elections [‘SoE’] has approved 41 nominations submitted by the Fiji Labour Party, whilst three (3) nominations remain pending further verification. On the same note the SoE has also approved 51 nominations from...