Fiji: Extra Police to Oversee Elections

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | May 2nd, 2006 | Trackback

Voters go to the polls May 6-13 in the second election since a 2000 coup pushed ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry out of power. Authorities canceled all police leave for the month and planned to deploy an extra 1,000 officers to monitor the polls, with another thousand on standby. Tensions surfaced May 1 when Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, an indigenous Fijian, suggested political unrest could follow the election if Chaudhry won. But the military commander warned that the army would not tolerate anyone who tried to stir up racial tensions. Unrest during the election is unlikely, but possible.

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