433:, winning 8,097 votes, the fourth highest-ranked candidate. His party received 5.2 per cent of the popular vote and 3 of the 50 parliamentary seats. Prasad subsequently became the Shadow Minister for Finance, Planning and National Statistics and Chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. His efforts to use the Public Accounts Committee to scrutinise the government's accounts resulted initially in a government boycott, and in 2016 in his removal as chair. In 2015 he led an unsuccessful attempt to revoke the controversial media decree, which limited freedom of the press. He also called for the government to lift its entry ban on Fijian historian
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517:Qounadovu, Sikeli (15 October 2016).
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1236:. RNZ. 27 December 2022
1138:. RNZ. 11 November 2022
1116:. RNZ. 11 November 2022
759:. RNZ. 12 November 2014
719:"2014 Election Results"
1094:. RNZ. 9 November 2022
1027:. RNZ. 5 November 2020
1005:. RNZ. 16 October 2020
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913:. RNZ. 17 October 2016
803:. RNZ. 19 January 2015
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