SYDNEY – Neither advocates nor opponents of a security pact with Beijing won a majority in the Solomon Islands’ parliamentary elections, results announced Wednesday for the last of the legislature’s 50 seats show.
The Coalition for Accountability Reform and Empowerment (CARE) – formed by the Solomon Islands Democratic Party, led by Matthew Wale, and the Democratic Alliance Party (DAP), led by former Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela – came in second, winning 13 seats.
Wale, a staunch critic of the central government’s wide-ranging security pact with Beijing, had previously accused Sogavare of selling out the country to “foreign interests.”
They will be lobbied heavily as the major players scramble to assemble at least 26 seats needed to form a government.
The coming days will see much horse-trading – an opaque and unpredictable process that transpires behind closed doors – as all elected members of parliament descend on the capital, Honiara, to select a new prime minister.
One of them, Cathy Nori, said her victory was “a win for the voiceless and the forgotten,” local media outlet In-depth Solomons reported.
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SYDNEY – Neither advocates nor opponents of a security pact with Beijing won a majority in the Solomon Islands’ parliamentary elections, results announced Wednesday for the last of the legislature’s 50 seats show.
The Coalition for Accountability Reform and Empowerment (CARE) – formed by the Solomon Islands Democratic Party, led by Matthew Wale, and the Democratic Alliance Party (DAP), led by former Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela – came in second, winning 13 seats.
Wale, a staunch critic of the central government’s wide-ranging security pact with Beijing, had previously accused Sogavare of selling out the country to “foreign interests.”
They will be lobbied heavily as the major players scramble to assemble at least 26 seats needed to form a government.
The coming days will see much horse-trading – an opaque and unpredictable process that transpires behind closed doors – as all elected members of parliament descend on the capital, Honiara, to select a new prime minister.
One of them, Cathy Nori, said her victory was “a win for the voiceless and the forgotten,” local media outlet In-depth Solomons reported.
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