Fiji has elected Sitiveni Rabuka as the nation’s prime minister, ending the 16-year rule of Frank Bainimarama. Rabuka gained 28 ballots to his predecessor’s 27 to become the new leader in a ...

Sitiveni Rabuka has become Fiji’s 12th prime minister, ending a tense political stalemate that had gripped the small Pacific island nation in the days following an undecisive election outcome ...

The development adds another twist to the volatile political situation on the Pacific island nation, where Bainimarama in December lost a tense election to Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka.

Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama after casting his vote in the general election on Wednesday. Source: AAP / Mick Tsikas Mr Rabuka said he was grateful for the decision. "I'd like to thank ...

Rabuka won a tense election in December over Frank Bainimarama, who had held power in Fiji for 16 years. Rabuka has moved since then to distance himself from some of Bainimarama’s policies ...

Bainimarama’s Fiji First Party won 26 seats in the 55-seat parliament. In order to secure a majority, Sitiveni Rabuka’s People’s Alliance Party, which won 21 seats, formed an alliance with ...

Both men denied the charges. Bainimarama’s legal woes have mounted since Rabuka, a former military commander, who himself led two power grabs in the late 1980s, became prime minister.

Bainimarama has yet to concede defeat. Fiji's president would call parliament to sit on Saturday morning, where coalition lawmakers will vote for Rabuka to become prime minister, National ...

Defence lawyer Devanesh Sharma has objected for his clients Voreqe Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho’s abuse of office case to ...

The 74-year-old won the nomination by one vote over incumbent Frank Bainimarama at a sitting of the Fijian Parliament in Suva. Rabuka, the head of the People’s Alliance Party, was elevated to ...

Following a nine-month legal battle, Mr Rabuka admitted in a magistrate’s court in 2002 that he had fathered a child during an affair with a journalist. After Mr Frank Bainimarama seized power ...