Former Prime Minister of Mauritius and candidate for Alliance du Changement, Navin Ramgoolam (R), casts his ballot during the 2024 Mauritian general election at a polling station in Port Louis on November 10, 2024. (Photo by Rishi ETWAROO / L'Express Maurice / AFP)
Port Louis: Polls opened in Mauritius on Sunday for parliamentary election with Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth seeking to win a second term.
Some one million eligible voters will vote for 62 seats in Parliament, and the party or alliance with a majority forms the government and chooses the prime minister. Another eight lawmakers are nominated by the Electoral Supervisory Council.
Jugnauth's five-party Peoples Alliance will be challenged by opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam's Alliance for Change in the election.
