The Latest Breaking News from Frank Bainimarama

Sitiveni Rabuka will become Fiji's new prime minister after securing a tripartite coalition, ending Frank Bainimarama's almost 16-year reign.

When the final election results were announced around 4pm on Sunday, many Fijians, at home and around the world, breathed a collective sigh of relief: the government of coup-maker Frank Bainimarama looked like it had finally been defeated at the ballot box.

An international group that monitored Fiji’s general election this week says it didn’t observe any voting irregularities and the process was transparent and credible

Fiji's opposition has taken the early lead in the election count but is expressing concerns about the integrity of the system after an earlier controversy.

The leaders of four political parties contesting Fiji’s general election called for an immediate halt to vote-counting after the online results app experienced a glitch and then the next batch of results swung in favor of the incumbent prime minister

Move comes after Fiji authorities took down a provisional tally that showed the opposition holding a very early lead.

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.

Fiji's main opposition leader Sitiveni Rabuka says he doesn't have faith in the vote count underway after yesterday's general election, and will complain to the Fijian Elections Office.

Fiji's supervisor of elections has hit back at claims the electoral process lacks integrity after opposition leaders asked for ballot counting to stop.