Coin toss for a parliament seat and a lawn bowls champion premier: Niue’s Covid election
by Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson from on (#54VQA)
New premier of the Pacific nation, Dalton Tagelagi, seeks to re-open island and a return to the good old happy days'
The two candidates for the seat of Mutalau, a village on Niue's northern point, could not be separated. Both had the same number of votes, just as had happened in the last election; in 2017 it was 19-19, in 2020 it was 26-26.
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