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sheds. The pre- polling, which ends on Sept. 15 Sean Harlow Jersey , is intended for voters living in remote areas or those that are part of services such as military and police.


To demonstrate impartiality, Fiji has invited at least 14 foreign countries including Australia, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, as well as the Europe Union to send their observers to monitor the election process.


The Fiji Police Force has announced that it will deploy some 3, 200 police officers nationwide on the election day to provide security at polling venues.


More than 240 candidates, including a few independent ones, run for the election. The rest come from seven political parties Duke Riley Jersey , namely the FijiFirst party, the Social Democratic Liberal Party, the Fiji Labor Party, the National Federation Party, the People's Democratic Party, the Fiji United Freedom Party, as well as OneFiji Party.


Among the parties, the most eye-catching one appears to be the FijiFirst party, led by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. An opinion poll conducted by the Fiji Times newspaper in early September showed that 49 percent of the interviewees were in favor of Bainimarama Takkarist McKinley Jersey , followed by Social Democratic Liberal Party leader and former minister for women Teimumu Kepa with a support rate of 20 percent. In other opinion polls, Bainimarama and his FijiFirst party also led the race with handsome margins.


Manifestos and leaders' public speeches indicate that the most distinct difference between the FijiFirst and the Social Democratic Liberal Party is: the former promotes ethnic equality, national reconciliation and does not tolerate the so-called " second-class citizenry", while the latter, which claims that the title "Fijian" only applies to the country's indigenous people, insists on some privileges of the indigenous, locally known as the "iTaukei".