A Tongan lawyer and the head of the Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) in Nuku alofa is calling for overseas-based workers to be given the right to vote through the ballot. Tongans will head to the polls on 20 November to elect their parliamentary representatives. WCCC s ʻOfa Guttenbeil-Likiliki said approximately 5000 Tongan citizens working Australia and New Zealand are being deprived of their basic human right to vote for their parliamentary representatives. She said Tonga has run through 14 years since the reform of 2010 and four election cycles without any serious move to amend the Electoral Act, which currently does not allow overseas voting. Guttenbeil-Likiliki said the workers...
Wednesday 15 October 2025
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Advocate calls for voting access for Tongans working overseas ahead of November polls
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