Full results are expected in coming days to determine whether Manasseh Sogavare’s Our party can form the next government
Solomon Islands’ incumbent prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has retained his parliamentary seat, results showed on Saturday, but it will be days before vote counting determines whether his Our party can form the next government.
Police and defence forces from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji are assisting with election security. The results of the national and provincial elections held in Solomon Islands are being announced over several days. The electoral chief, Jasper Highwood Anisi, said vote counting was slow but the integrity of the process was a priority to maintain public trust, and ballot boxes were under heavy police security.
The former opposition leader Matthew Wale of Solomon Islands Democratic party kept his seat in Aoke in Malaita province, broadcaster SIBC reported on Saturday.
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