2006 Election
In the parliamentary election held on 6–13 May 2006, Kepa faced a strong challenge for the Rewa Fijian Communal Constituency from her nephew, Ro Filipe Tuisawau. Tuisawau stood as an independent candidate, after failing to wrest the SDL nomination from his aunt. The chiefs and people of Rewa were divided; Kepa triumphed in the end, beating Tuisawau by 56.4 percent to 39.3 percent.
Tuisawau had criticised his aunt for allegedly politicising her chiefly position, which should be above politics, he said. "Politics is something different and this is based on individual choice whereas the chiefly system require the support of the whole vanua and it should not be used for politics," Fiji Live quoted him as saying (3 April 2006).
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