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Election deadlock in Fiji after all votes counted: Vote monitor
Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama and political rival Sitiveni Rabuka are projected to win 26 seats every in parliament.
Last outcomes present Fiji’s normal elections deadlocked, with neither incumbent Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama nor his political rival Sitiveni Rabuka heading for a majority of seats in parliament.
Bainimarama’s Fiji First celebration and a coalition led by his rival Rabuka are projected to safe 26 seats every within the 55-seat parliament, in line with a Fijian Election Workplace tally posted on-line on Sunday.
The useless warmth consequence caps a tumultuous election marketing campaign marked by allegations of fraud and requires army intervention.
Drama unfolded when opposition chief and two-time coup plotter Rabuka claimed the vote-counting course of was “clouded in secrecy”. He was then questioned by police after interesting to the army to intervene.
Fiji’s army chief mentioned on Friday his forces wouldn’t intervene. Worldwide election observers additionally mentioned on Friday that they had not seen any vital voting irregularities, including that an preliminary anomaly with an app displaying the outcomes had been rectified.
The federal government will now be fashioned via what may very well be a drawn-out negotiation course of, with each Rabuka and Bainimarama – who seized energy via a 2006 putsch after which legitimised his authorities with outright election wins in 2014 and 2018 – already courting the Social Democratic celebration, which holds three seats and now the stability of energy.
The Social Democrats are led by the deeply spiritual Viliame Gavoka, a former chairman of the Fijian Rugby Union who had fallen out with each Bainimarama and Rabuka.
Fiji is a small nation of simply 900,000 folks however the consequence has regional significance. Bainimarama has grown near China, whereas Rabuka and Gavoka have recommended loosening ties with Beijing.
The Social Democrats earlier this week joined a coalition of 5 different political events calling for vote counting to be instantly stopped and investigated.
Rabuka’s Folks’s Alliance wrote to Fiji’s Army Forces Commander Ro Jone Kalouniwai final week expressing issues over the election course of.
In response, Kalouniwai advised TV station FBC information on Friday that the army would put its belief within the electoral course of and never get entangled.
The co-chair of a Multinational Observer Group, Australian politician Rebekha Sharkie, advised reporters in Suva on Friday that counting was continuing “in a scientific, methodical and clear method”.
Technical issues with the app utilized by the general public to trace provisional outcomes had fuelled distrust amongst opposition events when it had proven a Folks’s Alliance Get together candidate main earlier than it was taken offline. When it went again on-line it confirmed Fiji First was forward.
The election workplace mentioned errors had been made in transferring knowledge to the app, and that it was not used to depend votes.
Lawmakers from South Korea’s governing party protested on Friday against a vote to impeach the country’s acting president, Han Duck-soo. The motion, which passed 192-0, came less than two weeks after President Yoon Suk Yeol was also ousted by the opposition in the National Assembly.
The frantic search for a Norwegian Cruise Line passenger who went overboard has been called off.
A spokesperson for the cruise line confirmed to Fox News Digital that the 51-year-old went overboard from Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Epic late Thursday afternoon.
The incident was first noted at approximately 3 p.m. as Norwegian Epic was sailing from Ocho Rios, Jamaica en route to Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas.
The passenger was on the cruise with his family, the spokesperson said. The cruise left from Port Canaveral, Florida on Saturday, Dec. 21 and was a seven-night Western Caribbean voyage.
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The cruise liner Norwegian Jewel built at the ship yard Meyer in Papenburg, northern Germany, goes down the river Ems. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File)
The cruise line said that authorities were quickly notified and search and rescue efforts were immediately implemented.
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“After an extensive search that was unfortunately unsuccessful, the ship was released by the authorities to continue its voyage,” the spokesperson said.
The Norwegian Epic, which was built in 2010 and refurbished in 2020, has 19 decks. (Norwegian Cruise Line)
Norwegian Cruise Line said the passenger’s loved ones on board were “being attended to and supported during this very challenging situation.”
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones during this difficult time,” the spokesperson added.
The Norwegian Epic, which was built in 2010 and refurbished in 2020, has 19 decks. It can accommodate 4,070 passengers with double occupancy of its cabins and has 1,724 crew members.
It was not immediately clear what caused the man to go overboard. The man has not been identified.
After food prices soared in 2021 and 2022, over five essential food products saw price drops in 2024, including milk and cereals.
In 2024, agricultural prices in the European Union saw a modest decline, falling by 2% compared to 2023.
This price decline followed sharp increases in 2021 and 2022 that occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather conditions and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Despite a surge in olive oil prices in 2024, the prices of cereals dropped by 15%, eggs by 8%, and vegetables and horticultural products declined by 2%.
The price of pigs and poultry also shrank by 7% and 8%, respectively.
According to Eurostat figures, milk prices decreased in 16 EU countries in 2024.
The sharpest decline was recorded in Finland with a 12% drop in prices, followed by Portugal with 10% and Spain with 8%.
By contrast, the sharpest increase was in Ireland with a 15% rise in prices, followed by Lithuania with 11% and Latvia with 10%.
In terms of production, the cost of seeds and veterinary services rose by 3%.
However, prices for fertilisers and soil improvers plummeted by 18%, food for animals by 11%, and plant protection products and pesticides by 2%.
Commission measures between farmers and buyers
After a year in which farmers have protested regularly, the EU Commission has presented an initiative to ensure they receive fair compensation and are no longer forced to sell products below production costs.
The proposed measures include mandatory written contracts that require buyers to clearly outline key terms such as price, quantity, and delivery timelines, taking into account market conditions and cost fluctuations.
The package also introduces a regulation to enhance enforcement of the Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) Directive, which was adopted five years ago but remains largely unimplemented.
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