The Head Heeb has a good rundown of the results of the Fijian election. Fiji has faced severe ethnic conflict and democratic breakdown, and its recent return to democracy included the adoption of the alternative vote (instant runoff), on the assumption that such rules would favor moderates. (It is a very dubious assumption in such a context.)
I left a comment beneath Jonathan’s post that perhaps should have been a post of my own here. At any rate, it begins, “Fiji’s mandatory power-sharing provision in the executive is rather at odds with the vote-transferring provisions of the legislative electoral system”; the rest is over at The Head Heeb.
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