Constituency meetings

Questions over relevancy of Tongan constituency meetings

The nearly two week-long series of meetings end on Friday but the Royal Oceania Institute's Tevita Motulalo said many have had a poor public turnout.

Mr Motulalo said in theory the meetings are an important democratic exercise because they offer the community an official public forum and direct connection with their MPs.

However, he said with the advent of social media and issues like infrastructure and jobs continually on the meeting agenda, people are wondering if they are still useful.