Who Holds Power
Sakiasi Ditoka
Sakiasi Ditoka took Fiji’s Foreign Affairs portfolio from PM Rabuka on 19 January 2026. He is also General Secretary of the governing People’s Alliance.
Who Holds Power
Who Holds Power
Inia Batikoto Seruiratu
Inia Seruiratu leads the Opposition and the seven-month-old People’s First Party. A former RFMF Colonel, four Cabinet portfolios under the previous government and is now the chief challenger.
Who Holds Power
Pio Tikoduadua
Pio Tikoduadua holds Defence, leads NFP, and has not yet decided whether he will contest 2026. One of the party’s most senior figures.
Who Holds Power
Sashi Kiran
From founding FRIEND Fiji in 2001 to running the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection. A profile of Sashi Kiran, one of five women in Parliament.
Who Holds Power
Manoa Kamikamica
Deputy Prime Minister. Chartered accountant. Founding People's Alliance figure. Nine months on the backbench, and now back at Cabinet with Public Enterprises added to his brief.
Who Holds Power
Ioane Naivalurua
Ioane Naivalurua controls policing and communications as Fiji heads to the 2026 election. Former Police Commissioner. Former Independent. Now inside Cabinet.
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Siromi Turaga
Siromi Turaga holds two of the most consequential levers of Fiji's 2026 election: Acting Attorney-General and the minister responsible for the vote itself.
Who Holds Power
Esrom Yosef Immanuel
Minister for Finance. People's Alliance. Sworn in October 2025 after Biman Prasad resigned on FICAC charges. His first budget as Minister is due 26 June 2026. The numbers are stable. The room to move is not.
Who Holds Power
Viliame Gavoka
Deputy Prime Minister. Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation. SODELPA's kingmaker in 2022. One million visitors. $2.54 billion. A profile of the coalition's most senior SODELPA figure.
Who Holds Power
Ro Filipe Tuisawau
Minister for Public Works, Transport & Meteorological Services. Deputy Leader, People's Alliance. His portfolio received the largest single budget allocation in 2025–26 — $800 million. A profile of one of the coalition's most senior figures.