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 SUVA, Fiji (AP) - A week of voting in this volatile South Pacific nation opened Saturday with tensions from a coup six years ago still flavoring the general election — considered a test of Fiji's troubled democracy.
Voters began queuing up as some analysts expressed concern that a victory for opposition leader Mahendra Chaudhry — the ethnic Indian prime minister who was targeted in the 2000 coup — could provoke unrest.
But they also point out that Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase's return could worsen the rift between the military and the government.
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