The ruling Fiji First party led provisional results, boosted by a 31.42% vote for Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, with half of polling stations counted in the Pacific island nation after Wednesday’s national election. Bainimarama, who came to power in a coup 16 years ago, is contesting his third democratic election since reforms to Fiji’s constitution in 2013 scrapped a race-based voting system.
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