21 January 2022

The Fijian Elections Office [FEO] has this afternoon launched its Pre-Election Voter Survey for the 2022 General Election.

Supervisor of Elections Mr Mohammed Saneem said the Pre-Election Survey is a first of its kind to be done before a General Election in Fiji and it will help the FEO in its preparations for the 2022 General Election.

“This survey is an initiative of ours to reach out to our main stakeholders, the voters, and find out their views and expectations when it comes to elections,” Mr Saneem said.

“The findings from the Survey will provide a more comprehensive understanding of voter behavior in the Fijian context and help the FEO in enhancing its services and in developing more effective and targeted strategies for the 2022 General Election.

“We had done a post-election survey after the 2018 General Election, the analysis of which formed the basis for our voter education strategy for 2022. Now, we are going a step further to gauge the levels of voter preparedness as well their expectations ahead of the next general election,” Mr Saneem explained.

The FEO team will start the nationwide survey from Monday, 24 January 2022.

“Our teams will be coming around to conduct the survey with registered voters. Voters will need to enter their VoterCard number in order to participate in the survey, so we encourage all voters to keep your VoterCards handy,” Mr Saneem said.

To encourage participation in the Survey, the FEO will be giving away a cash prize of $300. At the end of the project all voters who participate will go into the draw and six (6) winners will walk away with $50 each.

The nationwide Voter Survey project concludes on 11 February 2022.

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