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	Fiji election of 2001 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Constitution of Fiji was restored by a High Court decision on 15 November 2000, following the failure of the political upheaval in which the government had been deposed and the constitution suspended in May that year.
		Controversy has continued since the 2001 election, with Prime Minister Qarase finding reasons, which many consider to be pretexts, for not implementing the power-sharing provisions of the Constitution, which require that every political party with more than 8 seats in the House of Representatives must be proportionally represented in the Cabinet.
		On 18 July 2003, the Supreme Court of Fiji ruled that Qarase's exclusion of the Labour Party from the Cabinet was unconstitutional, and demanded that the situation be rectified.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiji_election_of_2001 (546 words)

	Fiji -- The 2002 Index of Economic Freedom, The Heritage Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the 2001 general election, the Fiji Labor Party was not given the number of seats it should have received under the 1997 constitution.
		From 1992 to 2001, Fiji's weighted average annual rate of inflation was 3.38 percent, up from the 1.79 percent from 1991 to 2000 reported in the 2002 Index.
		Fiji discourages foreign acquisition of a controlling interest in established Fijian businesses unless such acquisition is in the "national interest." State control of several major sectors, such as telecommunications, also restricts foreign investment.
	cf.heritage.org /index/country.cfm?ID=48 (1114 words)

	Fiji (09/05)
		Fiji was readmitted to the Commonwealth in October.
		Fiji is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, although it remains a developing country with a large subsistence agriculture sector.
		The Government of Fiji reported that growth was driven by a recovery in the tourism industry as well as by improved performance in mining, the harvesting and processing of mahogany, and fresh fish exports.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1834.htm (3629 words)

	CNN.com - Marijuana a Fiji election issue - August 19, 2001
		Fiji voters go to the polls on August 25 in a week-long election that will see candidates from some 18 political parties vying to form the next new government.
		Adi Kuini, a strong candidate in the general election, said it was tragic that indigenous Fijians were resorting to the marijuana trade as they sought ways to break away from the poverty cycle caused by years of government mismanagement and a lack of alternative sources of income.
		Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister, whose government was toppled in May 2000 after failed businessman George Speight and armed gunmen stormed parliament in the name of indigenous rights, said Fiji must break away from its gun culture if it is to reclaim some of the credibility in the international arena.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/18/fiji.election (461 words)

	George Speight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Speight was born in 1957 as the son of Sam Speight, a prosperous farmer of Fijian peopleethnic Fijian and European descent.
		The elder Speight participated in the Fiji coup of 19871987 coup instigated by Sitiveni Rabuka, which was ostensibly about protecting the interests of ethnic Fijians from Indo-Fijians, who had won a significant degree of power for the first time in the recent Fiji election of 1987elections.
		FIJI has withdrawn a demand that the Australian prosecutor who headed cases against the leaders of a 2000 coup should leave the South Pacific state immediately, reports said today.
	www.infothis.com /find/George_Speight (948 words)

	2001 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, 2001 is also the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
		September 18 - The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer.
		October 9 - The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2001 (3836 words)

	Fiji election of 2001 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An (A vote to select the winner of a position or political office) election to restore democracy was held in September 2001.
		(In Fiji's system of (Click link for more info and facts about transferable voting) transferable voting, any two or more candidates in a particular constituency can have their votes combined, unless the electors specify a different option by ranking the candidates numerically in order of their preference).
		The United Fiji Party won 18 of the 23 seats reserved for (Click link for more info and facts about ethnic Fijians) ethnic Fijians and one of three " (Click link for more info and facts about general electorates) general electorates" set aside for Fiji's European, Chinese, and other minorities.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fi/Fiji_election_of_2001.htm (489 words)

	April 2001 News Monitor
		WP 28 Apr 2001 Six Red Cross workers were found dead on a muddy, remote road in northeastern Congo on Thursday in the deadliest attack on the international agency since six nurses were killed in their sleep at a hospital in Chechnya in 1996.
		The 2000 and 2001 surveys both indicate that the overwhelming majority of deaths were related to disease and malnutrition, while a proportionately smaller number were directly attributable to violence.
		Fiji's chief magistrate is insisting that a preliminary hearing against Speight be held in the capital, Suva, instead of at the prison where he is incarcerated.
	www.preventgenocide.org /prevent/news-monitor/2001apr.htm (18618 words)

	Fiji
		Parliamentary elections were held between August 25 and September 1, per the Constitution, and were observed by teams from the U.N., the Commonwealth, and the European Union; they generally were regarded as free and fair.
		Fiji's Law Society met in 2000 and periodically during the year; it issued a number of critical statements regarding the status of the judiciary.
		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.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8308.htm (8797 words)

	CNN.com - Main players in Fiji's election - September 9, 2001
		He led Fiji until he changed its racist constitution in 1997-98 and was wiped out in a 1999 election landslide by Chaudhry.
		Fiji's traditional chiefly rulers appoint the president and are viewed as the unofficial political masters of Fiji.
		Fiji's president Ratu Josefa Iloilo was appointed in the aftermath of Fiji's May 2000.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/24/fiji.profiles (613 words)

	FIJI: Supreme Court hears multi party cabinet case: What next? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Fiji Court of Appeals on a reference by the High Court gave specific replies to questions posed by the High Court and it is this matter that is being deliberated by the Supreme Court.
		In the latter case, though it would go against the spirit of the Constitution, he will be legally justified as it is the prerogative of the prime minister to allot work for the ministers in his cabinet.
		One, it will be expensive to hold another election (at least 16 million dollars) and two- the results may throw up a similar situation where he will have to provide seats to opposition political parties, an arrangement he has maintained as "unworkable."
	www.saag.org /papers8/paper725.html (824 words)

	Cabinet (Fiji) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fiji has the Westminster system - executive authority is vested nominally in a List of Presidents of FijiPresident, but exercised in practice by a Cabinet of Ministers, presided over by the List of Prime Ministers of FijiPrime Minister.
		Then following the Fiji election of 2001election of 2001, Mahendra Chaudhry, the leader of the Fiji Labour Party, was involved in litigation against the List of Prime Ministers of FijiPrime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, on the grounds that Qarase had unconstitutionally refused to include the Labour Party in the Cabinet.
		On 18 July, 2003, Fiji's Supreme Court (Fiji)Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of the Labour Party was in breach of the Constitution of FijiConstitution, and demanded that the situation be rectified.
	www.infothis.com /find/Cabinet_(Fiji) (968 words)

	Fiji election of 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The United Fiji Party won 18 of the 23 seats reserved for ethnicFijians and one of three "general electorates" set aside for Fiji's European, Chinese, and other minorities.
		Controversy has continued since the 2001 election, with Prime Minister Qarase finding reasons, which many consider to bepretexts, for not implementing the power-sharing provisions of the Constitution, which require that every political party with more than 8 seats inthe House of Representatives mustbe proportionally represented in the Cabinet.
		On 18 July 2003, the Supreme Court of Fiji ruled that Qarase's exclusion of the Labour Party from the Cabinet was unconstitutional, and demanded that the situation berectified.
	www.therfcc.org /fiji-election-of-2001-252930.html (380 words)

	Election 2001 :: Australia asks Fiji to take asylum seekers :: AFR.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fiji has joined the growing list of Pacific island nations that the Federal Government is trying to persuade to accept unwanted asylum seekers trying to enter Australia illegally through ports at Ashmore Reef and Christmas Island off the north-west coast.
		He said Fiji was non-committal and had not gone into the finer details as to how much money it would get for resettling asylum seekers for the Australian Government.
		He added that sanctions on Fiji should not be lifted when there were still important unresolved issues relating to Fiji's treatment of its ethnic Indian population.
	afr.com /election2001/news/2001/10/19/FFXYXGEGXSC.html (532 words)

	2001 General Election Watch Preliminary Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The purpose of the Election Watch was to identify the problems that emerged in connection with the recent election and to suggest solutions for the future.
		The figures for women voting were lower than in 1999 and that a smaller proportion of the women standing for election were successful in the polls in 2001 than in 1999.
		There was enough suspicion about aspects of the election process and a sufficiently widespread perception that the elections were not adequately free and fair for this to be a cause of concern.
	www.ccf.org.fj /news/2001/november/election_watch_executive_summary.htm (1656 words)

	Fiji
		Fiji, which had been inhabited since the second millennium B.C., was explored by the Dutch and the British in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Fiji - Fiji or Viti, officially Republic of the Fiji Islands, republic made up of a Melanesian island...
		Fiji: Land - Land Fiji comprises c.320 islands, of which some 105 are inhabited.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107509.html (921 words)

	Labour welcomes police investigation into the 2001 general election –electoral fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fiji Labour Party welcomes the Police Commissioner's decision to mount fresh investigations into the 2001 General Elections.
		Mr Chaudhry added that it was a statutory requirement under section 85(1) and (2) that ballot accounts prepared by Returning Officers of respective polling stations are part of the reports submitted to elections office as per section 122 of the Electoral Act.
		Chaudhry said that they have always maintained that the 2001 General Elections were not free and fair as declared by the Commonwealth and the United Nations Observer missions.
	www.flp.org.fj /n040729.htm (224 words)

	CNN.com - Peaceful start to Fiji election - August 26, 2001
		Meanwhile, Fiji's High Court on Friday delayed until next year the treason trial of Speight and 12 others accused of storming parliament on May 19, 2000, and taking lawmakers hostage.
		The adjournment means Speight will contest racially divided Fiji's election from a prison cell as a candidate for the indigenous Fijians' Conservative Alliance.
		Treason carries the death penalty in Fiji, but capital sentences are generally commuted to life in prison.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/24/fiji.poll (906 words)

	CNN.com - FACTBOX: Fiji's election process - September 4, 2001
		SUVA, Fiji (Reuters) - Ousted Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry won his seat in elections called after he was deposed last year in a racially inspired coup and was virtually guaranteed a place in any post-coup government.
		He was re-appointed prime minister in 1994, promising to review the 1990 constitution, which led to a new one in 1997.
		-- Head of the Fiji military, Commander Frank Bainimarama, assumed control of the government after the parliament was dissolved by President Ratu Mara in the wake of the coup.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/09/04/fiji.factbox (554 words)

	NDCF World Conflict Count - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This hardly constitutes the "clash of civilizations" that Harvard's Samuel Huntington predicts, but it does seem to indicate that there are a lot of disgruntled Muslim groups in the world, frequently using Islam as an excuse for violence.
		Another pattern observed in 2001 was a great deal of political violence surrounding elections.
		The most dangerous conflict for 2001 is the possibility of further terrorist attacks against the United States.
	www.ndcf.org /Conflict_List/World2001/NDCFWorldConflictCount2001.htm (1813 words)

	Fiji election observers arriving - 2001-08-13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Independent observers are flying to Fiji to observe this month's elections, the latest chapter in a period of unrest which has crippled Fijian tourism.
		A large number of plantation workers were brought to Fiji from India several generations ago, and today there are almost as many Indo-Fijians as ethnic Fijian islanders.
		Fiji's unusual and much-attacked constitution reserves 23 legislative seats for Fijian islanders, 17 for Indo-Fijians and 3 for others.
	www.bizjournals.com /pacific/stories/2001/08/13/daily2.html (565 words)

	Parliamentary elections in Fiji -- 2001 -- UN observers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At a press conference today attended by UN Election Observers and members of the media, the Chief of the Mission, Nguyen Huu Dong, said the vital responsibility of the team is to monitor the impartiality of the electoral authorities, polling activities and the counting and computation of votes.
		He said, free and fair elections are a peaceful means of national decision-making as they contribute to national peace and security for all citizens of a country.
		Mr Dong concluded in saying the people and government of Fiji decided to return to the process, and called on the international community to be present at this moment.
	i-p-o.org /fiji-elections-un.htm (399 words)

	Election in Fiji from 25th August:will it make a dent on the racial fault lines? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Fiji Labour party of Mahendra Chaudhry filed a judicial review petition in the Court and an interim injunction was granted which barred the Commission from sitting.
		Elections would be under preferential voting system similar to the Australian pattern and not the one based on "first past the post." The second major change was the abolition of multi member constituencies.
		The candidates and parties participating in the elections: In all 351 candidates are standing for elections to the 71 seats with the interim Prime minister’s party SDL fielding the maximum number (59).
	www.saag.org /papers4/paper301.html (1209 words)

	Asia Times: Fiji's election: The race for parliament
		His co-deputy prime minister, the leader of the Fijian Association Party (FAP) Adi Kuini, was another indigenous Fijian moderate politician to lose her seat to the SDL, along with the leader of the former ruling party Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT).
		When he staged Fiji's first coup in 1987 to depose the country's first Indian-dominated government, Rabuka said he did it to safeguard the interests of the indigenous Fijians.
		In an election analysis in the Fiji Sun newspaper last week, the University of the South Pacific professor Vijay Naidu argued that it would be a cruel irony to allow coup leader Speight's party to hold any balance of power in a governing coalition.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/CI11Ah01.html (942 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Democratic rule was interrupted by two military coups in 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community (descendants of contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century).
		Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, but a coup in May 2000 ushered in a prolonged period of political turmoil.
		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.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/fj.html (988 words)

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