Fiji's military leader Voreqe Bainimarama has won an apology from the country's free to air broadcaster after it ran a personality competition in which he came second.
Fiji TV subsequently changed the result of the text vote to give Bainimarama the winning personality of the year award and stripping it from the original winner, Premila Kumar of the Consumer Council.
Bainimarama, who ended democracy with an armed coup in 2006 and refuses to restore democracy until 2014, said the poll was undemocratic.
He claimed Fiji TV closed the competition a day early and did not count 1500 votes that had all come in for him later.
Anti-regime blog sites claim those votes came in from two mobile phones used by the military.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Personality Of The Year
Once Newt is President, we'll have to contend with stuff like this:
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