ANALYSIS: By Professor Steven RatuvaThe highly anticipated 2022 election last month was a very close, emotionally charged and highly controversial affair. But why didn’t this coalition electoral outcome happen in Fiji during the first two elections in 2014 and 2018 although these were held under the PR system? In the 2022 election, 35,755 votes were “wasted”, which equated to 4.81 percent of the total votes. Some electoral lessons for the futureThe intense political horse-trading, high pressure power manoeuvring and stressful competition for coalition partnership in the hours after the election has taught us a few lessons. Firstly, political parties should now start thinking about forging partnerships because future elections can only be won through coalition.