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It has few rules, but is won when players are able to carry two of three barrels across a stream back to their village.

Before the seat was reconfigured, some of the villages sat in areas held by the Conservatives before 2017 and the party's fighting this by-election with the hope of showing it can still command support.

In September last year, Lissu told the BBC that nothing would come on a silver platter, and it would take courage to demand reforms "on the streets and in the villages".

"That teacher also played his part. That's why I always say it takes a village to raise a child. You need several people around you to push you in the right direction."

Across the country - where it is not uncommon for the smallest village to have a patron saint - church bells tolled and portraits of Pope Francis were hung inside churches as the faithful mourned.