The Fijian Elections Office is hosting the conference that includes electoral representatives from Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, Vanuatu, and Fiji.

Melanesian Spearhead Group Director Amena Yauvoli says challenges faced in ensuring a successful election will be a thing of the past.

Yauvoli says this can be achieved at the end of the two-day MSG Members Election Management Bodies conference.

“And this is one of the operational measures that we have put in together from the secretariat perspectives through our governance and legal affairs programme to strengthen the electoral governance process in Melanesia. The meeting is historic because at the sub-regional level it’s much easier to coordinate and strengthen our processes, our linkages”.

The Fijian Elections Office is hosting the conference that includes electoral representatives from Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, Vanuatu, and Fiji.

Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem says this is a platform to fortify their systems and processes to successfully conduct elections.

“For the Fijian Elections office, participating in this forum is to fortify our processes to see to the transparency for processes and also to adopt and adapt some processes that other MB’s use for their logistics, for their awareness programs”.

Saneem adds the conference also aims to strengthen their network with external stakeholders in their quest to strengthen the electoral processes in Fiji and other Melanesian countries.

The conference was officially opened this morning and ends tomorrow.