After meeting with Bainimarana government, police say they are calling out the military to help quell civil unrest and stop threats against minority groups. Some fear this is the beginning of a coup by Bainimarana.

People’s Alliance party forms coalition with Social Democratic Liberal Party. Rabuka will be prime minister.

Election office projects that both the ruling Fiji First and opposition People's Alliance parties will win 26 seats each in the 55-seat parliament. The Social Democratic Liberal Party, led by Viliame Gavoka, will decide which party to join in a ruling coalition.

After electoral commission removes a preliminary partial vote count that showed Rabuka’s coalition ahead, opposition files a complaint. A later publication of results (based on half the polling stations) four hours after the removal showed Bainimarama’s Fiji First Party in the lead.

Government mobilizes the army in response to threats to minority groups and ongoing civil unrest.

General election for parliament. Main candidates are Bainimarama and another former coup leader, Sitiveni Rabuka. Rabuka has been working to gain support from the economically powerful Indo-Fijian population, posing a significant competition for Bainimarama.

Fiji joins the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.

Pacific Island Forum (Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Tonga and Samoa attending, with Australia and New Zealand sitting in) opens with an address by US Pres Joe Biden, who urges the Federated States of Micronesia to rejoin the group, which boycotted over disagreement with the election of the Cook Islands’ Henry Puna as Secretary General, in contravention of traditional order. Fiji president Frank Bainimarama, attempted to make amends, with little success. Kausea Natano, prime minister of Tuvalu and departing chair of the PIF, points to the climate crisis as the greatest threat to the islands. It is a contentious issue for Australia, which has refused to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050. Biden commits US to net-zero emissions. Japan’s emission of polluted water from the Fukushima plant is also a concern.

Cases surge again. National Federation Party condemns handling of pandemic response.

Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats fight at Taiwan celebration in Fiji.

The Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa), the main opposition party in Fiji's parliament, is suspended in parliament for 60 days amid a political feud that has caused its appointments to be declared null and void.

A feud has divided the Social Democratic Liberal Party into two rival factions in recent weeks. Two separate Annual General Meetings (AGMs) appoint two separate executives for the country's main opposition party, which has 21 seats in parliament.

Pio Tikoduadua of the National Federation Party (NFP) is arrested after posting a video on social media alleging police brutality.

Fiji issues stay-at-home order for the capital, Suva, due to COVID-19 outbreak. There are two cases.

Fiji confirms its first case of COVID-19.

Fiji reports outbreak of measles, following Tonga.

With more than half the votes counted, Bainimarama has a slight majority.

Elections for parliament in Fiji. Current Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who took power in a 2016 coup, leads the Fiji First Party. His main challenger is Sitiveni Rabuka of the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA), who led two coups in the 1980s, but was cleared to run on 11/12 despite allegations of corruption.