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Pollsters using "falealea" name, not official [1]

Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Monday, October 23, 2017 - 19:12.  Updated on Monday, October 23, 2017 - 19:17.

An "election poll" forecasting the leaders in the race for Tonga's General Election on November 16 was not an official release from Tonga's Parliament.

A list of favourites was circulated to news media from a "falealea" email address.

Sione Vikilani from the Legislative Assembly confirmed this afternoon that they had nothing to do with the polling statistics from "falealea2017 @yahoo.com". He believed this anonymous group was just using the word Fale Alea (Parliament) as their name.

The individuals in the group identify themselves only as civil servants, including a person from the Statistics Department.

The group who have released two anonymous polls on October 12 and October 20, favour 'Akilisi Pohiva leading in Constituency no. 1. 

Fale alea [2]
Election Polling figures [3]
Parliament [4]

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[1] https://matangitonga.to/2017/10/23/pollsters-using-falealea-name-not-official [2] https://matangitonga.to/tag/fale-alea?page=1 [3] https://matangitonga.to/tag/election-polling-figures?page=1 [4] https://matangitonga.to/topic/parliament?page=1