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	fijian alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Widely seen as the political vehicle of the traditional Fijian chiefs, the Alliance Party also commanded considerable support among the Europeans and other ethnic minorities, who, although comprising only 3-4 percent of Fiji's population, were over represented in the parliament (with a third of the seats before 1973, and a sixth thereafter, allocated to them).
		Alliance Party rule was briefly challenged in the election of March 1977, when a split in the ethnic Fijian vote resulted in the loss of nine seats.
		The Alliance Party was considered to be a centre-right party, and was a member of the International Democrat Union, a umbrella-organization of moderate right-wing parties from many countries, including the Republican Party of the United States, the British Conservative Party, and the Australian Liberal Party.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /fijian_alliance.html (660 words)

	Epeli Ganilau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bose Levu Vakaturaga is a formal assembly of Fijian hereditary chiefs, along with a number of specially qualified commoners, chosen mainly by Fiji's provincial councils, which also has a constitutional role in functioning as an electoral college to elect the President of the republic, as well as 14 of the 32 Senators.
		Ganilau hinted that he himself would play a role in reviving the Alliance, and it the decision to oust him from the leadership of the Great Council of Chiefs was widely seen as a ploy to prevent him from using the Council as a platform from which to advance his own political ambitions.
		Calling for changes in the attitudes of indigenous Fijians to allow everyone born in Fiji to be classified as "Fijian," he said that the country could not afford to remain fragmented and polarized on racial lines, and that racially based measures enacted by the present government were shortening the fuse on a time bomb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epeli_Ganilau (2428 words)

	Fijian Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Indo-Fijians were less supportive, but the Fijian -European block vote kept the Alliance Party in power for more than twenty years.
		Implications of a Syntactically Ambiguous Structure in Standard Fijian Research claiming that syntactically ambiguous structure implies a transition from one structure to another in the historical past which has further implications on how some Fijian dialects should be subgrouped.
		Fijian is an language of the spoken on Fiji.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Fijian_Alliance.html (824 words)

	Fijian Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Alliance Party rule was briefly challenged in election of March 1977 when a split in the ethnic vote resulted in the loss of nine The Alliance ended up with 24 seats the 52-seat parliament two less than the Indo-Fijian -dominated National Federation Party (NFP).
		The majority of the Alliance Party was in the 1982 election but with 28 seats out of it retained office.
		In April 1987 the party was finally beaten by multi-racial coalition led by Timoci Bavadra an ethnic Fijian who nevertheless drew of his support from the Indo-Fijian population.
	www.freeglossary.com /Fijian_Alliance (587 words)

	Fiji Elections: The racial divide has only widened
		Fijians must move forward with their hopes and not be held back by fears- Sir Paul Reeves, Chairman of the committee that reviewed the 1990 constitution and authored the multiracial version - the1997 constitution.
		A key platform of the Alliance during the election was to pardon all those charged with offences related to last year’s coup.
		The Fijians of Indian origin are in further trouble as the most important portfolio relating to land affairs has been given to Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu of the New Conservative Alliance.
	www.saag.org /papers4/paper320.html (1247 words)

	Fijian Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A constitutional crisis developed when, three days after the election, the NFP splintered in a leadership brawl, and the Governor General of Fiji, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, asked the Mara government to remain in power in a caretaker capacity.
		More than fifteen years after the disbanding of the Fijian Alliance, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs from 2001 to 2004, and a son-in-law of the late Ratu Mara, formally registered the National Alliance Party of Fiji on 18 January 2005 as a claimed successor to the defunct party.
		The Fijian Alliance was considered to be a centre-right party, and was a member of the International Democrat Union, a umbrella-organization of moderate right-wing parties from many countries, including the Republican Party of the United States, the British Conservative Party, and the Australian Liberal Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fijian_Alliance (498 words)

	Irene Jai Narayan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Indo-Fijian, she was elected to the House of Representatives in 1972 as a candidate of the Indo-Fijian dominated National Federation Party (Fiji).
		She was also the Opposition Whip from 1977 to 1979, and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1979 to 1985.
		Early in 2005, Narrayen joined the National Alliance Party, a new party founded by Ratu Epeli Ganilau as an attempt to revive the defunct Fijian Alliance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irene_Jai_Narayan (230 words)

	Colour, Class and Custom: Section One
		The label 'Fijians' was applied, from the earliest period of European contact, to the race of indigenous people of Fiji, and since then indigenous Fijians have opposed its extension to include other races.
		Some observers even avoid 'Fijians' as a description of the indigenous people, preferring the term 'Taukei', but in any discussion of the coup, which inevitably will include references to the 'Taukei Movement', the use of 'Taukei' as a broad label causes confusion and obscures the divisions within the indigenous community.
		Many indigenous Fijians hold the conviction that their community's past must be reflected in the nation's present political system.
	speedysnail.com /pacific/fiji_coup/section1.html (4192 words)

	Australian Parliamentary Library - Research Paper 7 1997-98
		The Alliance Party's ethnic Fijian supporters saw the party as the protector of their interests and as the natural party of government, but it always needed some support among other ethnic groups in order to stay in office.
		The splits in the Fijian vote evident in the elections of 1992 and 1994 reflected the strains in indigenous Fijian society brought by rapid social and economic change and the growth of new political configurations.
		Within the indigenous Fijian community there would have to be acceptance that the presence of significant numbers of Indo-Fijians in government is not a threat to indigenous interests and the Indo-Fijian community would have to be willing to have their representatives take on a subordinate or non-leading role in government for the indefinite future.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp07.htm (8464 words)

	Fijian Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Alliance Party rule was briefly challenged in 1977, when a split in the ethnic Fijian vote resulted in the loss of eight seats.
		The majority of the Alliance Party was weakened in the 1982 election, but with 28 seats out of 52, it retained office.
		In 1987, the party was finally beaten by a multi-racial coalition led by Timoci Bavadra, an ethnic Fijian who nevertheless drew most of his support from the Indo-Fijian population.
	www.fact-index.com /f/fi/fijian_alliance.html (349 words)

	Freedom in the World 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fijian politics remained sharply polarized in 2002, as agricultural land rights and other divisive issues continued to drive a wedge between the South Pacific country's two main ethnic groups.
		Rabuka led an indigenous Fijian party to victory in elections in 1992 and 1994 that were held under a new constitution that ensured indigenous Fijian control of parliament.
		Fijian trade unions are independent and vigorous, and roughly 55 percent of the workforce is unionized.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2003/countryratings/fiji.htm (1612 words)

	List of political parties in Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fijian Political Party, better known by its Fijian name, Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT), ethnic Fijian; the governing party from 1992 to 1999, but decimated in 1999 and anihlated in 2001.
		Christian Democratic Alliance, more commonly known by the Fijian acronym VLV (Veitokoni ni Lewenivanua VaKarisito) - founded in 1999, this party won 19 percent of the vote and 3 seats in the 1999 election.
		Fijian Alliance (Alliance Party) - the former ruling party (1967-1987); founded by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Fiji (763 words)

	Rob Kay's FijiGuide
		Although Bavadra was Fijian and the majority of his cabinet was made up of non- Indians, the coalition was labeled `Indian dominated'.
		Rabuka said the purpose of the coup was to return political power to Fijian hands and demanded that changes be made to the constitution guaranteeing Fijian control of the government.
		Fortunately for the Fijian government, most of the nations that had stopped contributing foreign aid after the coup, rethought their policies and once again provided money to the cash-strapped country.
	www.fijiguide.com /Facts/history.html (2247 words)

	Freedom in the World 1998-99: Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the 1994 vote, in the indigenous Fijian voting the SVT won 31 seats; the Fijian Association Party, five, and independents, one.
		Fijians have voted twice under a constitution that was promulgated by an unelected government without a referendum, and that ensures indigenous-Fijians a parliamentary majority.
		Indigenous Fijians hold 83 percent of the land, and Indo-Fijians, who are primary cash crop farmers with limited land tenure, fear farmers will be evicted as current leases expire between 1997 and 2000.
	www.freedomhouse.org /survey99/country/fiji.html (1017 words)

	The Fijian Constitutional Debates and Dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As a result of such a labour policy, indigenous Fijians were largely confined to the traditional sectors of the colonial economy, although a small proportion did enter the wage-employment sector in mining and copra industries as well as through recruitment in the colonial military and police services.
		Capitalizing on this arrangement, and its largely superficial cross-ethnic appeal, the Alliance Party won successive elections in 1972, 1977 and 1982 (with the exception of early 1977 when a hung parliament and the failure of opposition NFP to form government led to a fresh elections).
		As the Alliance constituted government and the seat of parliament lay in Suva, Fijians numerically dominated Suva on the backs of preferential employment policies in the public sector and the state dominated commercial sectors, while the sugar towns in the West were dominated by Indo-Fijians.
	www.c-r.org /pubs/occ_papers/occ_fiji.shtml (9590 words)

	Definition of Fijian Alliance
		More than fifteen years after the dissolution of the Fijian Alliance, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs from 2001 to 2004, and a son-in-law of the late Ratu Mara, announced his intention on July 21, 2004 to work to revive the defunct party.
		Reaction from the Fijian government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was less enthusiastic, however; a revived Alliance Party would likely compete with the ruling United Fiji Party for the same constituency.
		It was speculated that the apparently sudden decision of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council to terminate Ganilau's membership of the Great Council of Chiefs in July 2004 may have been influenced by high-level disquiet at his ability to use the Great Council as a platform for his own political ambitions, thereby compromising its neutrality.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Fijian_Alliance (772 words)

	Epeli Ganilau biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ratu Epeli Ganilau (born 10 October 1951) is a Fijian soldier and statesman, who served as Chairman of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga (Great Council of Chiefs) from 2001 to 2004.
		The Bose Levu Vakaturaga is a formal assembly of Fijian hereditary chiefs, along with some appointees of Fiji's provincial councils, which also has a constitutional role in functioning as an electoral college to elect the President of the republic, as well as 14 of the 32 Senators.
		Ganilau hinted that he himself would play a role in reviving the Alliance, and it is speculated that the decision to oust him from the leadership of the Great Council of Chiefs may have been intended to prevent him from using the Council as a platform from which to advance his own political ambitions.
	epeli-ganilau.biography.ms (575 words)

	Fiji Update
		Fijian Association Party leader, Adi Kuini Speed believes indigenous Fijians are one of the most protected indigenous people in the world.
		But he said as far as Fijian land is concerned it is the private property of of the mataqali who like all property owners have the right to decide how to use their land and on what terms and conditions to lease their land.
		Yet Mr Jale Baba, the General Secretary of the SDL, in a recent interview with the Fijian weekly in Fijian Nai Lalakai (lotulevu, 9th Okosita, 2001), clearly contradicts his party's electoral promise to the nation by saying that the 1997 Constitution is unsuitable for Fiji and therefore needs to be changed.
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/conflict/fiji/24-8-01.html (6289 words)

	Fijian Alliance - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		Founded in the early 1960s, its leader was Ratu Sir Kamisese_Mara, the founding father of the modern Fijian nation.
		In April 1987, the party was finally beaten by a multi-racial coalition led by Timoci_Bavadra, an ethnic Fijian who nevertheless drew most of his support from the Indo-Fijian population.
		The Alliance Party was considered to be a centre-right party, and was a member of the International_Democrat_Union, a umbrella-organization of moderate right-wing parties from many countries, including the Republican Party of the United_States, the British Conservative Party, and the Australian Liberal Party.
	www.erdmond.com /Fijian_Alliance.html (430 words)

	Political Parties MV Manifesto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Fijians must firstly be allowed to consolidate on the ownership issue before they resolve the principal issue of land proprietorship by other races that have chosen to make Fiji their home.
		The Party will also respect and implement the Compact contained in the Constitution which provides that the paramouncy of the Fijian interests as a protective principle continues to apply so as to ensure that the interest of the Fijian Community are not subordinated to the interests of other communities.
		Our international relations must be more assertive and vigilant in protecting interests peculiarly Fijian in nature or matters which are internal to the sovereignty of these Islands; and not allow itself to be bullied by international opinion.
	www.undp.org.fj /elections/Elections/parties/mv_man.htm (3918 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of political parties in Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fijian Political Party (ethnic Fijian; the governing party from 1992 to 1999, but decimated in 1999 and anihlated in 2001).
		On 18 January 2005, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, the past Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs, formally registered the Alliance Party of Fiji as the claimed successor to the defunct party.
		Christian Democratic Party - founded in 1999, this party won 19 percent of the vote and 3 seats in the 1999 election.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-political-parties-in-Fiji (455 words)

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