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	Bringing prosperity to Fiji Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji coup 1987 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fiji is now quite confident of accomplishing 4.4 per cent economic growth this year and expects 5.7 per cent for 2003.
		Fiji has the University of the South Pacific, the Fiji School of Medicine, which trains medical students from other island states, and the seat of the Forum Secretariat.
		Fiji is English-speaking and has a high literacy rate and is quite advantaged in terms of the time zone.
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2003/02/04/04interviewx.htm (3641 words)

	OnlineWomen: Fiji
		Fiji, endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, though still with a large subsistence sector.
		In the August elections, 30 Fijian women and 1 Indo-Fijian woman ran for election; 5 women were elected to the House of Representatives.
		After the election, four ethnic Fijian women were appointed to the Cabinet (two as ministers and two as assistant ministers), and another was appointed to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
	www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /fj/fjmain.htm (746 words)

	Towards elections in Fiji
		Elections were then scheduled for August 25 and the Qarase government remained in charge.
		The VLV party (Veitokani Ni Lewenivanua Vakaristo) was formed on the eve of elections, by Fijians opposed to Rabuka in 1999.
		Any candidate is debarred from standing for election if he or she is convicted for a crime that can attract a sentence of over two years.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1817/18170550.htm (2052 words)

	BBC News \| Asia-Pacific \| Race warning follows Fiji elections
		Fiji's defeated prime minister formally resigned on Tuesday, saying Fiji remains a divided nation and charging Indian voters who ousted him of engaging in racial politics.
		The leader of Fiji's opposition Labour party, Mahendra Chaudhry, is set to become the country's first Indian prime minister after a resounding victory in the election.
		Fiji's population is made up of around 51% indigenous Fijians, 44% Indian-Fijians and 5% other races.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/347025.stm (487 words)

	Fiji Elections: The racial divide has only widened
		With 47 percent of the seats Mahendra Chaudhry’s Fiji Labour party is entitled to 8 seats in the cabinet.
		Fiji’s Chief Justice Sir Timoci Tuivaga has already warned that the government has been formed ignoring the constitution and added that the letter and spirit of the constitution may have been overlooked.
		The Fiji Labour party is considering boycotting parliament over the way the government had denied it seats in the cabinet.
	www.saag.org /papers4/paper320.html (1247 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Fiji's political turmoil deepens
		Fiji is facing a political deadlock after newly-elected Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase refused to consult the opposition leader, former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudry over his cabinet.
		Fiji's constitution states any party with more than 10% of the seats in the new parliament must be offered a cabinet position - Mr Chaudhry's Labour Party is entitled to 46% of ministerial positions.
		Mr Qarase faces a tough challenge - Fiji's economy is in depression and the racial divide that led to the coup is as deep as ever.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1535350.stm (588 words)

	Fiji Divided Along Race in May 2006 Elections - Worldpress.org
		The 2006 Fiji general election has further raised the utility of Alternative Vote (A.V.) as a means of promoting centrist policies and moderate political parties in deeply divided communities.
		Despite the supervisor of elections having informed the nation that the Elections Office was ready on Fiji One Television on the 6:00 p.m.
		Fiji's 25 open seats were hotly contested by both the S.D.L. and the F.L.P. had only one candidate, Arvind Deo Singh, contesting the Nadi Open seat, which was won by the N.F.P. in 2001.
	www.worldpress.org /Asia/2356.cfm (2786 words)

	Politics of Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The parliamentary election of 1992 was inconclusive, and the position of the largest party, the Fijian Political Party, was further undermined by subsequent defections.
		Fiji was readmitted to the Commonwealth in October.
		Fiji is one of the rare countries in the world that officially imposes disabilities on a group that constitutes a large part of the population, on the basis of race
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Fiji (2719 words)

	Stuck in the M.U.D of Fiji socio-cultural and socio-political limbo. Stuck in Fiji M.U.D
		Fiji is a special case because of its large population of Indians, descendants of indentured laborers brought over by the British to work in cane plantations over a century ago.
		Although some of Fiji's public have their own ideas of democracy as demonstrated by the Fiji Times coverage of a patriotic resident, who converted his house into a shrine; these individuals may be need to update their knowledge on ethics and morality; which is the foundation which the house of democracy is built on.
		This difference in opinion was raised by the Fiji Attorney General when he read the speech of the Prime Minister that questioned the silence of Fiji Law Society and their relunctance to take a position on the conflict between the Government and the Army, even though other Non Governmental Organizations had voiced theirs.
	stuckinfijimud.blogspot.com (9685 words)

	Fijilive - Gateway to Fiji, Fiji News, Fiji eDirectory, Fiji Magic, Fiji Real Estate, Fiji Classifieds, Fiji Dating, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry maintains that Labour Members of Parliament have the independence of voting against legislation they feel are against the interests of the people..
		Fiji’s Energy Minister Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi is calling for a new code of conduct for cabinet members governing ministerial behaviour due to the new multi party Cabinet arrangement..
		Fiji’s Elections Office has admitted that it was "severely" understaffed when the Prime Minister announced three months ago that the General Elections would be held in May..
	www.fijilive.com /elections2006 (323 words)

	Fiji elections may be two years off \| \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		FIJI'S military-appointed caretaker prime minister said today that elections in his country may be two years away and Fiji would build ties with Asia to circumvent economic sanctions imposed in the wake of a military coup.
		Military doctor Jona Baravilala Senilagakali, a Methodist lay preacher and political novice, said the military would determine the timing of elections in the South Pacific nation, which was this week hit by its fourth coup in 20 years.
		He has said an interim administration will steer Fiji to new elections, but there is no sign yet of when that administration will be formed.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20886979-1702,00.html (506 words)

	Commonwealth to decide on credibility of elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the last election which the Fiji Labour Party won with a landslide majority, the defeated political parties claimed that the majority win was not acceptable to them.
		It is known that Fiji's future in the community of nations lies with the way the political parties, the politicians and the army and police behave during and after the elections.
		Many people, however, still believe that the key architects of the terrorist activity last year are still lurking in the background and are planning to strike the nation in a more violent and bloody manner.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no1026.htm (210 words)

	Fiji - Country Page
		In Fiji, little attention has focused on women's roles as sustainers of families and communities in times of conflict; however women's participation in peace processes is vital.
		The Chief Justice of Fiji, when speaking of a rape case, stated that the victim did not suffer any adverse effects because she was only 17 at the time and she had known different men sexually before the incident.
		Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM), who is associated with AusAid, has designed projects in 2002 that are concerned with lobbying the government for legal reform with a particular focus on family law reform and the promotion of legal literacy and rights awareness in the community.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /fiji/fiji.htm (4613 words)

	FIJI: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 1999
		Elections were held for all the seats in the House of Representatives under the new Constitution of July 1998 upon the normal expiry of the members' term.
		In 1997, the Constitution was amended to remove many of the racially discriminatory aspects of the voting system, thus ending the political dominance of the country's native Melanesian community over citizens of Indian extraction (who had been brought to Fiji at the turn of the century as indentured labour to work on sugar plantations).
		Two months later, the Election Commission pushed the date back to May. Parliament was dissolved on 21 March in view of the elections.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2109_99.htm (498 words)

	ABC News: Fiji Candidate Says Elections Are Rigged
		SUVA, Fiji May 9, 2006 (AP)— Fiji's opposition leader alleged Tuesday that elections under way in his South Pacific nation were rigged with bogus ballots, but the country's elections supervisor disputed the charge and an observer called it highly unlikely.
		Fiji Labour Party Leader Mahendra Chaudhry, who was deposed as prime minister in a coup in 2000 and defeated by the incumbent Laisenia Qarase in elections in 2001, told reporters that he had alerted police about his allegations.
		Elections Supervisor Semesa Karavaki, the nation's senior election official, said he told police who contacted his office that the election was not being rigged.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1939403 (436 words)

	Radio Australia - News - General elections continue in Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The man in charge of the election has fended off calls for his resignation after thousands of voters were forced to queue for hours.
		The leader of Fiji's opposition Labour Party has called for the immediate resignation of the supervisor of the elections, Semesa Karavaki.
		The election is expected to be a close race between caretaker Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1632640.htm (223 words)

	Fiji Media and Elections Workshop - The University of the South Pacific
		Election management is concerned with establishing a team, a plan, and procedures that will ensure that the electoral process is successfully run within budget and in compliance with the law.
		The level of responsibility that rests with election administrators and their staff is, therefore, quite great and to be taken on only with great personal commitment.
		Some of the key principles that election managers are guided by include communication, accountability, transparency, professionalism, impartiality, and the concept of service to voters and other participants in the process.
	www.usp.ac.fj /index.php?id=2295 (571 words)

	Elections in Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fiji has held nine general elections for the House of Representatives since becoming independent of the United Kingdom in 1970; there had been numerous elections under colonial rule, but only one with universal suffrage (in 1966).
		In this period, Fiji has had three constitutions, and the voting system has changed accordingly.
		Note that there are no general elections for the Senate: The 32 Senators are nominated, not elected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Fiji (888 words)

	Foreign observers for elections in Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the Elections Office has reasserted its independence, questions over the impartiality of returning officers and polling agents remain.
		The actual election work is conducted by the civil servants, many of whom have been placed in their positions by the present government.
		A glimpse of this was seen in Rakiraki recently during the Sugar Cane Growers Council election where the District Officer had ruled that a candidate opposing the government-backed candidate was not qualified to contest.
	i-p-o.org /Fiji-elections.htm (207 words)

	FT - 17.5.2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Fiji, to my knowledge, a voter has always to register personally to be registered as a voter on the rolls.
		If Fiji citizens can move freely from town to cities to islands without giving notice to a government authority, its virtually impossible to track them to a certain location.
		For Fiji that would mean, that every person has to have a physical postal address or post box.
	www.fijihosting.com /bulaman/a_060517.htm (855 words)

	IFES Election Guide - Country Profile: Fiji - Elections
		Fiji's ousted prime minister says public anger against a military coup could force the new rulers to step down.
		SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase refused to resign on Wednesday in the face of threats from the country's military chief, warning a coup would have dire consequences for the South Pacific nation's fragile economy.
		The by-election was necessitated by the death of a candidated before the general election on August 25, 2001.
	www.electionguide.org /country-news.php?ID=73 (740 words)

	Fijivillage.com - Fiji's Home on the World Wide Web - Elections 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meanwhile, the Supervisor of Elections, Semesa Karavaki, confirmed earlier that a total of 1,790,400 ballot papers were ordered for the 2006 elections and that was the only papers that were printed.
		The Elections Office is confident that over 60 percent of the registered voters will cast their votes by the end of polling this evening.
		The Elections Office has today confirmed that 49,272 people cast their votes on day one of polling which is 10 percent of the total number of registered voters.
	www.fijivillage.com /elections_2006/news.shtml (9434 words)

	An unfortunate state, says Fiji elections chief - Fiji Times Online
		Supervisor of Elections Semesa Karavaki says it is unfortunate the democratic process was ignored by the military as it prepared to take over the Government.
		He said despite the impasse Fiji was strong enough to overcome such problems.
		Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry - himself a victim of the 2000 coup - now says the Army should be allowed to 'restore democracy to Fiji'.
	www.fijitimes.com /story.aspx?id=52978 (487 words)

	Fiji Democracy Vote May Be 2 Years Away, Elections to Restore Fiji to Democracy May Be 2 Years Away, Interim Prime ...
		Fiji Democracy Vote May Be 2 Years Away, Elections to Restore Fiji to Democracy May Be 2 Years Away, Interim Prime Minister Says - CBS News
		Elections to restore Fiji to democracy may be 2 years away, interim prime minister says
		Tuesday's coup _ Fiji's fourth in nearly two decades _ was the culmination of a long impasse between Bainimarama and ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase over bills offering pardons to conspirators in a 2000 coup and handing lucrative coastal land ownership to indigenous Fijians.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/12/07/ap/world/mainD8LRS6U01.shtml (375 words)

	Australia Welcomes Fiji Elections Announcement
		Support will also be provided to the Fiji police for security and logistics during the elections.
		In order to give legitimacy and mandate to an elected government, voters need to be confident that the Fiji elections are conducted in a free and fair way.
		Fiji's prosperity depends on political stability and economic growth and I look forward to working with the newly elected government of our close regional neighbour.
	www.ausaid.gov.au /media/release.cfm?BC=Media&ID=1989_4149_4067_4349_7483 (175 words)

	Coup-installed prime minister says elections in Fiji could be 2 years away - Asia - Pacific - International Herald ...
		Coup-installed prime minister says elections in Fiji could be 2 years away
		SUVA, Fiji: Promised elections to restore Fiji to democracy after this week's coup could be two years or more away, the military-installed interim prime minister said Thursday.
		Also on Thursday, Fiji's military ruler announced he had replaced the country's elections commissioner as part of a clean-out of the civil service he says will weed out the alleged corruption of the government he ousted.
	iht.com /articles/ap/2006/12/07/asia/AS_GEN_Fiji_Coup_Elections.php (475 words)

	Fiji : Elections Accentuate Racial Divide \| Asian Tribune
		The recent elections in Fiji have highlighted the deep rooted racial divide within the country.
		As per Fiji’s unique electoral system, 46 out of 71 seats for the lower house are contested on communal basis where voters from a particular ethnic group elect members from their own community.
		Similarly 19 seats are earmarked Fiji Indians for which only Indians vote and three seats are earmarked as General for the members of other ethnic groups (mainly Europeans, Chinese etc) and are contested by all communities other than the two main ethnic groups namely native Fijians and Indians.
	www.asiantribune.com /index.php?q=node/316 (1268 words)

	Fiji's influential tribal chiefs criticize coup - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
		The chiefs' criticism of Bainimarama's takeover on Tuesday is important because of their huge influence among Fiji's politically dominant indigenous majority.
		Earlier Bainimarama continued a clean-out of the civil service, announcing that the elections commissioner and the chief of the Public Service Commission had been fired, as well as parliamentary officials and other senior bureaucrats.
		The coup — Fiji's fourth in nearly two decades — was the culmination of a long impasse between Bainimarama and Qarase over bills offering pardons to conspirators in a 2000 coup and handing lucrative coastal land ownership to indigenous Fijians.
	iht.com /articles/ap/2006/12/07/asia/AS_GEN_Fiji_Coup.php (913 words)

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