Tonga has elected a new leader by secret ballot in parliament, two weeks after the previous prime minister abruptly resigned, following a power struggle with the Pacific nation’s royal family.

and it highlighted the occasional tensions between Tonga’s monarchy and elected lawmakers in a still-young democracy after reforms that transferred powers from the royal family and nobles to ...

The Tonga archipelago lies in the South Pacific approximately ... thanks to the continuous transmission and the patronage of the royal family, it underwent a revival in the twentieth century.