Chinanews.com, December 20th. According to Suva, the "Voice of the South Pacific" app in Fiji, at 19:15 local time, the results of Fiji's 2022 general election were settled. The Social Democratic Liberal Party, which played a decisive role, announced that it would cooperate with the A coalition of the Awami League and the National Alliance is in power.

This means that Bainimarama, who has been in power for 16 years, is about to step down.

  Fiji's 2022 general election will be completed on December 14. After several days of statistics, the final vote results will be announced by the Fiji Election Office on December 18.

  After statistics, the Fiji First Party (FFP) led by the current Prime Minister Josiah Warengai Bainimarama and the Attorney General Aiyaz Said Keyoum won 200,246 votes (accounting for 42.55%) emerged as the single party with the most votes; its rival, the Awami League Party (PAP), led by Sitivini Lambka, got 168,581 votes (35.82% of the total); (NFP) received 41,830 votes, (8.89% of the total); while the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) narrowly surpassed the minimum 5% entry threshold and received 24,172 votes (5.14% of the total); Unity Fiji Party , Fiji Labor Party, We United Fiji Party, All People Party and New Generation Party and two independent candidates all failed to obtain more than 5% of the vote to be ineligible for Parliament.

  So far, the Fiji First Party has 26 parliamentary seats, the People's Alliance Party has 21 seats, the National Alliance Party has 5 seats and the Social Democratic Liberal Party has won 3 seats.

  According to Fiji's current constitution and election law, a political party needs to win more than 28 seats to obtain the right to form an independent cabinet. However, no party has won more than 28 seats in this general election.

Both the Fiji First and the Awami League-National Alliance parties secured 26 seats simultaneously, leaving the Social Democratic Liberal Party with 3 seats as the key force.

The Social Democratic Freedom Party will strike a deal with its chosen camp to form a coalition government.

  Due to the fact that the Social Democratic Liberal Party has political differences with both camps, this has led to serious divisions within the party.

On the one hand, the party wants to end the 16-year rule of Bainimarama, and on the other hand, it does not want Rambuka, who will cause the party to split, to become the new prime minister. The Social Democratic Liberal Party has launched many internal meetings to discuss this. .

During this period, the youth group leader and party founder of the Social Democratic Liberal Party and the family of the deceased former Prime Minister Ngarase represented a large number of party members who expressed their dislike of establishing a coalition government with the Fiji First Party.

On the morning of the 20th, a large number of supporters of the Social Democratic Liberal Party also launched a large-scale petition.

  At 19:15 local time, after the Social Democratic Liberal Party Management Committee voted, the Social Democratic Liberal Party will form a coalition government with the Awami League Party led by Rambuka and the National Alliance Party led by Biman Prasad.

  Fiji's constitution stipulates that members of parliament with seats held by a party will face the sanction of losing their seats if they do not vote according to the party's resolution.