24 Apr 2024

Lobbying to form Solomon Islands next govt underway

From , 6:03 am on 24 April 2024
Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Highwood Anisi delivering his statement at the Election Walk Awareness event in Honiara. 22 February 2024

Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Highwood Anisi delivering his statement at the Election Walk Awareness event in Honiara. 22 February 2024 Photo: Solomon Islands Electoral Commission

As counting wraps up in the Solomon Islands the electoral commission is looking at trialing out of constituency voting.

With only a handful of seats in the 50-member parliament yet to be officially declared there is no outright winner.

But lobbying to form the country's next government is underway.

As of yesterday, the two largest blocs in the winner's circle, Independents and the incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare's Our Party, were tied with 12 MPs each.

RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins spoke with Chief Electoral Officer, Jasper Anisi, and asked him how he thought the country's first joint national election went.