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Rigging charge in Fiji

Suva (Fiji): Fiji's Opposition leader said on Tuesday that he has complained to police that elections under way in his South Pacific nation are being rigged with bogus ballots, but the country's elections supervisor disputed the allegation.

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry, who was deposed as Prime Minister in a coup in 2000 and defeated by the incumbent Laisenia Qarase in elections in 2001, said he had alerted police.

He claimed thousands of additional ballot papers had been created by the Government printing office to use as bogus votes. Election supervisor Semesa Karavaki denied the election was being rigged. — AP

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