RMI National Election News
‘Local’ election may alter face of political line-up was the headline on page one of The Marshall Islands Journal’s this week, with editor Giff Johnson pointing out how significant this year’s national election is because of the lack of postal votes for the first time ever.
Also significant is that the upcoming new leadership will “oversee negotiations with the US for post-2023 Compact funding and to guide the RMI thought a period of increasingly contentious relations between China and the US, which has implications for RMI-Taiwan ties.”
Other stories related to the national election in the November 8, 2019 issue of the Journal include:
An Opinion piece on why the RMI should have had postal votes this election by long-time campaigners on the issue Evelyn Konou, Anna Lehman, and Biram Stege;
A letter to the editor by Kether Lodge expressing his “disappointment and distress in the Supreme Court’s opinions and the postal voting issues referred to it;
A Q&A by reporter Eve Burns talking to young people around town titled: Who are you going to vote for?
The back page Are You Aware column, which was devoted to stats about women in parliaments around the world, with the featured photo titled ‘Ladies who vote’ and captioned: “THAT at this year’s Pacific Islands Forum, Secretary General Dame Meg Taylor, RMI President Hilda Heine, and NZ Prime Minsiter Jacinda Ardern held a media session on women and gender issues?”
