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Coin toss for a parliament seat and a lawn bowls champion premier: Niue’s Covid election
New premier of the Pacific nation, Dalton Tagelagi, seeks to reopen island and ‘a return to the good old happy days’
The two candidates for the seat of Mutalau, a village on Niue’s northern point, could not be separated. Both had the same number of votes, just as had happened in the last election; in 2017 it was 19-19, in 2020 it was 26-26.
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