Fiji election: opposition leader disputes results as vote count continues

Sitiveni Rabuka calls for calm, while his claims of irregularities are rebuffed by election supervisors

Fiji's opposition leader, Sitiveni Rabuka, has alleged irregularities in voting data while calling for calm, as counting continued in the country's national election.

Provisional results had the opposition People's Alliance party hovering in the mid to low 40s and incumbent prime minister Frank Bainimarama's FijiFirst party in the mid-20s four hours after polls closed. The results were taken offline for a number of hours and, when they returned, the results had flipped.