Voting Begins In Mauritius Election
Date
11/10/2024 2:40:55 PM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
QNA
Port Louis: polls opened in Mauritius on Sunday for parliamentary election with Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth seeking to win a second term.
Some one million eligible voters will vote for 62 seats in Parliament, and the party or alliance with a majority forms the government and chooses the prime minister. Another eight lawmakers are nominated by the Electoral Supervisory Council.
Jugnauth's five-party Peoples Alliance will be challenged by opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam's Alliance for Change in the election.
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