Tongan/English handbook on democracy to be distributed next month

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Updated July 31, 2009 16:49:14

A group of university staff and students from New Zealand will visit Tonga in August to distribute a booklet outlining basic democratic concepts. The 100 page booklet, in Tongan and English, has been prepared by Dr Malakai Koloamatangi, a Tongan political scientist at Canterbury University. He says around five thousand of the booklets will be distributed all around Tonga at public meetings which will feature discussions about the new, more democratic system in the Kingdom. Elections under a new system which will see the majority of MPs elected by the people, are scheduled for the end of next year.

Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speaker: Dr Malakai Koloamatangi, a political scientist at New Zealand's Canterbury University

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