THE Supervisor of Elections and the Electoral Commission handed in their joint report on the 2018 General Elections to the President Jioje Konrote earlier this week.
A statement released by the Fijian Elections Office stated the joint report annexed the final report of the SOE as well as the MOG report on the 2018 General Election.
Chairperson of the commission Suresh Chandra said that the handing in of the report completed the commission’s task of last year’s elections.
“We have carefully considered the SoE’s report on the conduct of the 2018 General Election, the MOG Report and its findings and recommendations, and we have thereafter considered that primarily there is a need to spread electoral activities over 4 years instead of leaving most of it to the election period,” said Mr Chandra.
He added that since the FEO and the commission were long term establishments, Fiji needed to refocus some of the aspects of elections to be due and finalised one to two years prior to the first date the writ can be issued.
“This would ensure that Political Parties and various other stakeholders are involved and if they wish, they can play an active role in preparing the country for the next General Election.”
