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	United Fiji Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 12 August 2005, Baba claimed that three members of the opposition Fiji Labour Party's parliamentary caucus had applied for endorsement as SDL candidates for the parliamentary election scheduled to be held in mid-2006.
		The party's general secretary, Jale Baba, had earlier said that the SDL was dissatisfied with the performance of about a third of its parliamentarians, and that they would not be nominated for another term.
		Party Secretary Jale Baba said on 20 September that three SDL members of the present Cabinet had not sought the SDL nomination for the 2006 election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Fiji_Party (944 words)

	FLP History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Fiji Labour Party was launched under the aegis of the Fiji Trades Union Congress to fight the Alliance Party's growing insensitivity towards the plight of the workers and the poor.
		FLP challenged the results of four seats - one was that of Krishna Prasad who lost the Nadi Open seat to NFP's Prem Singh - the only seat won by NFP in the general elections, confirming the routing it had received at the polls in 1999.
		Labour has been critical of CJ Fatiaki's refusal to constitute the Supreme Court to hear the case as a matter of urgency because of the national significance of the case.
	www.flp.org.fj /history.htm (2498 words)

	Fiji Labour Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Fiji Labour Party (FLP) is a political party in (An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands) Fiji.
		The party was launched on 6 July 1985 under the auspices of the Fiji Trades Union Congress, at the Fiji Teachers Association hall in (The capital and largest city of Fiji (on Viti Levu island)) Suva.
		The Fiji Labour Party formed its first government (in coalition with the (Click link for more info and facts about National Federation Party) National Federation Party) after (A vote to select the winner of a position or political office) elections in April 1987 gave the coalition 28 of the 52 parliamentary seats.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fi/Fiji_Labour_Party.htm (671 words)

	Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Labour Party or Labor Party is used by several political parties around the world.
		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Unity Labour Party
		Senegal – defunct: Labour Party of Sine Saloum
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Party (197 words)

	Fiji Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The fortunes of the Labour Party revived in the later 1990s, as the government of Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka became unpopular amid admissions of womanizing and reports ofhigh-level corruption in his administration.
		Elections to restore democracy were held in September 2001 ; theLabour Party, hurt by intra-party fighting and the defection of key figures including Tupeni Baba, won the most votes (34.8 percent), but only 28 of the 71 seats in the House of Representatives(Fiji), four less than the United Fiji Party of Laisenia Qarase.
		Chaudhry's strained relationship with Prime Minister Qarase hasprevented the Labour Party from being represented in the Cabinet,despite the constitutional stipulation that any politicalparty with more than eight seats in the House of Representatives is entitled to proportionate representation in the Cabinet.
	www.therfcc.org /fiji-labour-party-180618.html (377 words)

	GOPIO CONVENTION
		In June 2003, the Supreme Court, the country’s highest appellate court, ruled in favour of the Fiji Labour Party in declaring the FLP’s right to representation in Cabinet in proportion to its numbers in the House of Representatives.
		This has not worked under the leadership of the Fiji Labour Party which has advised farmers that they should move away from their dependency on native leases and seek other means of livelihood.
		It should be remembered that in Fiji the main victims of the government’s racist policies are those who are the most vulnerable: the poor, the workers, the farmers, the farm hands and people with ordinary incomes - people who comprise more than 85% of the Fiji-Indian population.
	www.gopio.net /fiji.htm (1913 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Fiji Labour Party calls for suspension from Commonwealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fiji's opposition Labour Party says the country should be suspended from the Commonwealth if the government passes the controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity Bill.
		Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, has told the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Don McKinnon, that the proposed law endorses terrorism because it provides an amnesty for those involved in the 2000 coup.
		Labour Party spokesman on Law, Justice and Order, Senator Aanand Singh, says he hopes a new suspension from the Commonwealth will be as successful as previous ones.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1456341.htm (243 words)

	Fiji Coup 030 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The leadership of another close ally of Chaudhry’s Labour Party, the Fijian Association Party, was challenged by prominent Fijian chiefs from the province of Tailevu.
		Fiji’s new electoral system was the outcome of a deliberate exercise in ‘electoral engineering’ designed to ameliorate ethnic polarisation in Fiji.
		The party sought a wider appeal amongst the largely Methodist ethnic Fijians by calls for a ban on Sunday trading and the declaration of Fiji as a Christian state.
	maorinews.com /karere/fiji/fiji030.htm (1788 words)

	Laour Party stands by principles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amidst massive applause, speakers at the Fiji Labour Party meeting in Lautoka on Saturday heard that the Labour Party was the only party which had stood firm to its ideology and to the principles it espoused.
		It was the only party which had sincerely begun delivering its promises made to the nation during the 1999 elections.
		The meeting heard that the Fiji Labour Party was formed by the workers and farmers of Fiji.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no861.htm (192 words)

	Fiji Labour Party - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		The fortunes of the Labour Party revived in the later 1990s, as the government of Prime Minister Sitiveni_Rabuka became unpopular amid admissions of womanizing and reports of high-level corruption in his administration.
		Elections to restore democracy were held in September 2001; the Labour Party, hurt by intra-party fighting and the defection of key figures including Tupeni_Baba, won the most votes (34.8 percent), but only 28 of the 71 seats in the House of Representatives (Fiji), four less than the United_Fiji_Party of Laisenia_Qarase.
		On July_18 2003 the Supreme_Court_of_Fiji ruled that Qarase's exclusion of the Labour Party breached the constitution, and demanded that the situation be rectified.
	www.erdmond.com /Fiji_Labour_Party.html (458 words)

	rediff.com US edition: Qarase holds out a hand to Chaudhry
		Fiji's new prime minister Laisenia Qarase has said he would invite deposed premier Mahendra Chaudhry, whom he outmanoeuvred after the election, to join his cabinet.
		Qarase, Fiji's sixth prime minister, said he would invite Chaudhry's Fiji Labour Party to join his cabinet, but made it clear that he was doing so because the constitution compels him to do so.
		Under the 1997 constitution, the FLP is entitled to eight seats in the cabinet.
	www.rediff.com /us/2001/sep/10fiji.htm (597 words)

	Fiji Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fiji Labour Party spokesman John Ali said they were comfortable with the Constitution and they did not see why there was a need for a review.
		Labour leader Mahendra Chaudhry said the judgment was foreseen after the Court of Appeal had sounded the same decision.
		A Fiji lawyer acting for Lieutenant Colonel Filipo Tarakinikini is relying on a letter from Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to the United Nations to force the acceptance of the soldier's resignation from the Fiji Military.
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/conflict/fiji/25-4-02.html (3169 words)

	Go Asia Pacific - Indonesia: Fragile Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The FLP was created as a multi-racial party with the backing of the country's union movement - including the Fiji Public Servants Association and its then leader, Mahendra Chaudhry.
		The party lost a significant part of its indigenous support in the 1990s, but performed well in 1999 and still fields candidates in many Fijian communal seats.
		The party's traditional support base of trade unions, workers and farmers provides the FLP with an efficient, grass-roots campaigning structure.
	www.goasiapacific.com /specials/fiji/partyprofiles_flp.htm (206 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Fiji Labour Party leader criticised for judiciary comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fiji's Conservative Alliance Matanitu Vanua party is calling for the arrest of Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry over comments on the country's justice system.
		The party, a government coalition partner, said Mr Chaudhry should be arrested for "attacking" the judiciary for handing out lenient sentence to three men convicted over the May 2000 coup - James Speight, Jo Savua and Ilisoni Ligairi.
		Conservative Alliance party secretary general Ratu Josefa Dimuri said Mr Chaudhry 's comments touched on the sanctity and credibility of the judiciary and he should be arrested immediately..
	goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1050301.htm (154 words)

	Labour confident to break NFP support - Fiji Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE Fiji Labour Party is confident of breaking the National Federation Party's stronghold in the Ba Town Council this year.
		FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry met the party's candidates for the October 22 municipal elections in Ba during the weekend.
		While the FLP is optimistic of breaking the NFP's stronghold in the municipality, the NFP on the other hand is confident of retaining all seats.
	www.fijitimes.com /story.aspx?id=30057 (201 words)

	Café Pacific: Asia-Pacific Network: Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Labour, the key partner in Fiji's multiracial coalition government deposed at gunpoint by the Rabuka-led coup plotters almost 12 years ago to the day, has astutely pitched its campaign to the national mood for change to head for a landslide win.
		Labour's core constituency is the workers, the cane farmers, the poor and the deprived.
		Labour, the key partner in the multiracial coalition government deposed at gunpoint by the Rabuka-led coup plotters almost 12 years ago to the day, astutely pitched its campaign to the national mood for change.
	www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/fiji2.html (1208 words)

	Fiji Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry was reportedly preparing a statement in reply to Qarase's decision to exclude FLP members from his new Cabinet.
		FIJI was plunged into a new political crisis only hours after Laisenia Qarase took office as Prime Minister yesterday, when his rival demanded his constitutional right to nearly half the seats in cabinet.
		The Labour Party was entitled to 47 percent seats in the Cabinet, Mr Chaudhry said.
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/conflict/fiji/12-9-01.html (6174 words)

	FIJI: Multi Party Cabinet: The quarrel over numbers
		* The Labour party is entitled to 14 positions in the cabinet in proportion to 27 members it has in a total of 71 members and not 17 members as is being interpreted by Chaudhry on the basis of para 142 of the judgement of the Supreme Court.
		Further, the Fiji Labour Party is entitled to be represented in this Cabinet because it has fulfilled the threshold requirement of eligibility to be invited under section 99 (5) and also because it has unconditionally accepted the Prime Minister’s unconditional invitation to be represented in Cabinet.
		It is Labour’s participation in a multi-party Cabinet, not the formation of a GNU or a coalition multi-party Cabinet, that is the only specific issue in question.
	www.saag.org /papers8/paper783.html (1498 words)

	Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The name ''Labour Party''''' or '''''Labor Party'' is used by several political partypolitical parties around the world.
		Labour party executive committee member Wenzu Mintoff, former MP and Green Party founder and chairperson, has denied any involvement in the partyâs vigilance and discipline board to screen MLP activists believed to be close to Anna Malliaâs Moviment Laburista Popolari.
		JERUSALEM: Israel's Labour Party delayed a ballot for a new leader after a brawl erupted among party members at a meeting yesterday, underscoring the deep divisions in the country's junior ruling coalition partner.
	www.infothis.com /find/Labour_Party (418 words)

	FIJI: Chaudhry and his Labour Party will never learn:
		We had also appealed to Mahendra Chaudhry and his party that it was their turn to accept the offer graciously and not contest the offer anymore as otherwise it would only prove the contention of Qarase that the power sharing in the Constitution is unworkable.
		The focus on the strategic development plan for 2003 to 2005 of the government was also for “Peaceful and Prosperous Fiji” as there is a realisation that both are essential for the well being of the country.
		For all this the former Prime minister and now the leader of the opposition Labour party is to be blamed.
	www.saag.org /\papers14\paper1344.html (1041 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> FLP entitled to place in Fiji Cabinet: Chaudhry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Suva: A court case to determine the future of Fiji's government opened on February 12 with deposed ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry arguing his Fiji Labour Party (FLP) was entitled to a place in the cabinet.
		Fiji's constitution appears to require the government to offer cabinet seats to any party taking 10 per cent or more of the vote, which the FLP did.
		Qarase initially offered seats to FLP which was accepted, but the premier later changed his mind and said he could not work with Chaudhry.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2002/02/12/12fiji.html (277 words)

	Pacific Journalism Online: Ethics
		The Party claims that to refuse to print reactions to Government Policies and actions, particularly from opposition parties, is to deny their right to freedom of expression.
		The Party does represent a significant segment of the population and its opinions on this matter would, in the opinion of the Complaints Committee, have been newsworthy.
		While this is not a specific complaint by the Labour Party, the Fiji Times in their response to the claim, have made the assertion that the Editor is the sole arbiter of news values.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/ethics/fijimc58.html (896 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Fiji Labour Party wins weekend by-election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Fiji Labour Party has had an easy win in a by-election at the weekend.
		The result is a disappointment for Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, who had hoped his SDL party would take the seat from Mahendra Chaudhry's Labour Party.
		The Fiji Labour party retained the seat of Tavua Open, scoring more than 51 per cent of the valid primary vote.
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1027888.htm (193 words)

	Fiji: the looming Constitutional crisis
		February which said that the Fiji Labour Party has a legal entitlement under the Constitution to be represented in the Cabinet in proportion to its numbers in the House of Representatives.
		After the General Election, a Prime minister is required by section 99(5) of the Constitution to invite any party holding at least 10 percent of the seats in the House of Representatives, and which is not already in the Government, to be represented in Cabinet in proportion to its membership in the House.
		Chaudhry therefore filed a case in the High Court on September 25, 2001 against the Prime Minister, the President and the Attorney General claiming that the Fiji Labour Party was entitled under the Constitution to be represented in Cabinet.
	www.saag.org /papers5/paper418.html (1541 words)

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