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Lord Fakafanua has been elected Tonga's next prime minister by his fellow MPs, ousting incumbent prime minister Dr 'Aisake Eke.
The pair faced off against each other in today's vote at parliament, which comes three weeks after Tonga went to the polls on November 20.
Fakafanua, 40, won the secret ballot by 16 votes to 10.
Fakafanua is only the second noble to hold the role of prime minister since the country's 2010 constitutional reforms, which saw the balance-of -power in the legislative assembly shift to the cohort of 17 MPs elected by the general public.
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