Analysis of the Electoral Decree

8th April 2014
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Dr Wadan Narsey has provided two very good articles analysing the
Electoral Decree released a week ago.

One is titled Bainimarama regime presents Fiji’s electoral nightmare and looks at
the chaos likely to be created on polling day as a result of the nature of polling and
the voting procedures prescribed by the decree.

The second article analyses the complicated open list voting system prescribed in the
decree. Its a must read for all those wishing to understand how the system will work and
what are the likely results.

The articles can be accessed on the following links :

http://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/bainimarama-regime-presents-fijis-electoral-nightmare-
professor-wadan-narsey-30-march-2014/

http://narseyonfiji.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/g-election-issues-bulletin
7-the-open-list-electoral-system.pdf

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