Three weeks before candidates register [1]
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 19:46. Updated on Monday, September 9, 2013 - 18:40.
WITH only three weeks left until candidates register for the Tonga General Election set for November 25, it is expected that some high level public servants will resign their posts in order to stand for election to parliament.
Public Servants who intend to run must resign before registration on on October 21-22.
Supervisor of Election said on September 26, that the Public Service Commission would receive resignations of those public servants who are intending to run as candidates in the election, before the registration dates. This requirement was passed by the Tongan Parliament earlier this month in an Amended Bill to the Public Servant Act.
There has been no comment from the Public Service Commission on which public servants have to date tendered their resignations in order to run for election.
But there are some who have publicly declared their campaigns, such as the Government's Auditor General Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa.