2 Apr 2007

Few changes in Wallis and Futuna election

1:11 pm on 2 April 2007

Voters in the French territory of Wallis and Futuna have elected a new 20-member assembly for a five-year term.

20 out of 26 lists contesting the polls won one seat each.

The assembly includes three new members.

Observers say it is too early to say what trends are to emerge from the assembly whose members have been chosen along mainly clan lines.

A new assembly president is to be elected on Friday.