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 SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji's incumbent leader promised a multiracial government if he's returned to power as the final day of voting got under way Saturday in weeklong general elections.
The racial split of Indigenous Fijians and ethnic Indians has been a leading cause of tensions in this South Pacific nation, playing a role in a 2000 coup.
The election pitted the party of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase — an indigenous Fijian incumbent who is struggling for power with the country's military chief — against ethnic Indian opposition leader Mahendra Chaudhry.
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