8pm update: Petition against election results yet to be served

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Food being delivered to the Suvavou House. Picture: Rama

As at 7.20pm this evening food were seen being taken inside Suvavou House in Suva where respondents listed in the #2018GeneralElection results petition are believed to be having a meeting.

Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem refused to make a comment when approached outside Suvavou House.

Members of the SODELPA youths are still waiting outside with copies of the petition since 8am this morning.

The election petition is yet to be served personally on the remaining 27 respondents.

The petition against the results of the 2018 General Election had to be served personally in 24 hours on the 28 named respondents, the Court of Disputed Returns directed yesterday.

The deadline was at 6pm.

Bailiffs reportedly tried to serve the petitions on the respondents but were stopped earlier today.

Earlier this afternoon, National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad and the Social Democratic Liberal Party member Adi Litia Qionibaravi also claimed they were denied access into the Attorney-General’s Office conference room earlier today.

The two Opposition members were on their way to serve the election petition against the 2018 General Election results personally on the 27 respondents who have not been served.

The duo together with a team of bailiffs were allegedly stopped from entering a room at Level 9 of Suvavou House to serve the petition.

A security personnel informed the team that a workshop was undergoing and no one was allowed to enter Level 9.

Level 9 of the building elevator was also disabled.

The petition against the results of the 2018 General Election had to be served personally in 24 hours on the 28 named respondents, the Court of Disputed Returns directed yesterday.

 

 

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