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	Fiji Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was The Roko Tui Dreketi, Paramount Chiefess of Rewa and Traditional Head of Burebasaga and married to Fijian President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, The Tui Lau, Tui Nayan and Tevita Uluilakeba, the Traditional Head of the Confederation of Touata Tribes.
		From 1999 Vice-Premier and Minister of Fijian Affairs.
		Fiji Labour Party was denied the role even though the 21 members of the FLP who are not in the multi-party Cabinet will continue to function as members of the opposition.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /fiji_parties.htm (223 words)

	Fijian Association Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fijian Association Party (FAP) is a former political party in Fiji.
		The FAP was founded in 1994 by Josefata Kamikamica, head of the Native Land Trust Board and a former Minister of Finance.
		The government of which the FAP was a part was deposed in the Fiji coup of 2000, instigated by George Speight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fijian_Association_Party (635 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Fijians in Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Under the party is the Fijian Association, dedicated to protecting the political rights and interests of indigenous Fijians, the Fiji National Congress, consisting of Indians opposed to mainstream Indian parties, and the General Electors Association composed of Europeans, Chinese, and others minorities.(Lawson, 1996).
		Fijians have been setting up roadblocks in cane-growing areas on Sundays affecting the flow of cane to mills which operate around the clock.
		The Fijian Sugar and General Workers’ Union (FSGWU) went on strike when it failed to reach a compromise with the government-owned Fijian Sugar Corporation over the reinstatement of a senior staff member who was demoted.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=95002 (3202 words)

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		Fijians consider themselves members of the "vanua," a concept that encompasses the people of a given area, their chiefs, and the land on which they live.
		Two of the opposition parties, the National Federation Party and the Fiji Labour Party, are strongly opposed to the lack of proportional parliamentary representation for all races.
		In 1991, a Coalition of the National Federation Party and Fijian Labour Party, along with the Fiji Trades Union Congress and the National Farmers Union led a seven-week long boycott of the sugar cane harvest.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/backgroundnotes/fiji.txt (4207 words)

	Towards elections in Fiji
		The main political parties consist of the SVT party (Soqosoqo no Vakavulewa ni Taukei) that was formed in 1990 after the coup as the party of the ethnic Fijians with the blessings of the Fijian chiefs.
		The VLV party (Veitokani Ni Lewenivanua Vakaristo) was formed on the eve of elections, by Fijians opposed to Rabuka in 1999.
		Leadership struggles remained a feature of the party and it lost its claim to be the main political party of the Indians in 1984 when the FLP was formed to oppose the economic policies of the Alliance Government.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1817/18170550.htm (2052 words)

	Stephanie Sienkiewicz Thesis: Chapter 3
		If the Fijian population is ever permitted to sink from its present condition into that of a collection of migratory bands of hired laborers, all hope, not only of the improvement but the preservation of the race, must inevitably be abandoned.
		The ineffectiveness of the NFP in combating the Alliance party's political control in the 1982 elections led to the formation of the Fiji Labor Party in July of 1985; the president of the party was Dr. Timoci Uluivuda Bavadra.
		A senior Fijian Association Party official told The Associated Press that Mara urged Chaudhry to install an ethnic Fijian as prime minister to reduce the risk of a backlash from the Fijians, who are half the country's 800,000 population.
	www.union.edu /PUBLIC/ANTDEPT/fiji99/sienkiewicz/ssind3.htm (11955 words)

	The Head Heeb: A choice of patterns
		One was the 1987 election, in which a coalition of Indo-Fijians and restive Fijian commoners brought Timoci Bavadra's Labour party to power (at least for the month before it was overthrown in a coup).
		All 19 of the Indian communal seats were won by Labour and all 23 of the Fijian seats were taken by the SDL or by the ultra-nationalist Conservative Alliance-Matanitu Vanua, while the distribution of open seats closely followed their demographic breakdowns.
		Labour is contesting 15 of the Fijian communal seats and has recruited ethnic Fijian candidates in some of the rural open seats, and is hoping that its position on economic issues might tilt some close districts its way.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/032039.html (977 words)

	Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fijian Political Party (better known by its initials SVT, which stand for its Fijian name, Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei) is a party which dominated politics in the 1990s and was the mainstay of coalition governments from 1992 to 1999, but which is currently without representation in the House of Representatives.
		The party was founded in 1990 as the political vehicle of the Great Council of Chiefs, with the declared goal of uniting all indigenous Fijians.
		This party dissolved itself in April 2005 to join the new National Alliance Party of Fiji, under the leadership of Ratu Epeli Ganilau.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fijian_Political_Party (1105 words)

	last minute Fijian_Association_Party - last-minute-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The FAP was founded in 1994 by Josefata Kamikamica, head of the Native Land Trust Board and a former Minister of Finance.
		Speed joined the FAP in 1985 after falling out with her late husband's party over the direction in which Mahendra Chaudhry, the new leader, was taking it.
		Towards the end of 1999, Speed survived a challenge to her leadership of the FAP in a divisive High Court case, which resulted in backbencher Ratu Tu'uakitau Cokanauto and his supporters splitting from the party.
	www.last-minute-report.com /Fijian_Association_Party (806 words)

	Fiji (02/01)
		Indigenous Fijians are a mixture of Polynesian and Melanesian, resulting from the original migrations to the South Pacific many centuries ago.
		The native Fijians live throughout the country, while the Indo-Fijians reside primarily near the urban centers and in the cane-producing areas of the two main islands.
		The standoff dragged on for 8 weeks--during which time Chaudhry was removed from office by the then-president due to his incapacitation--before the Fijian military seized power and brokered a negotiated end to the situation, then arrested Speight when he violated its terms.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/f/10403.htm (2328 words)

	A widening divide
		The party believes that land must be used to promote and facilitate the economic development of indigenous Fijians.
		Other radical Fijians point out that despite being the original people of the land, constituting the majority in the country and owning 84 per cent of the land, they are denied political domination.
		The SVT party, floated by Sitiveni Rabuka, the leader of the first coup in Fiji in 1987, seems to have lost its place in Fijian politics with the emergence of radical Fijian parties.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1820/18200580.htm (1933 words)

	FLP History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		For strategic reasons the Fiji Labour Party decided it was prudent to fight the general elections in a coalition with the National Federation Party so as not to split the Indian vote.
		As the second largest party in the House, Labour was legally entitled to cabinet positions in line with the power sharing provisions of the Constitution.
	www.flp.org.fj /history.htm (2498 words)

	Pacific Magazine: What Next?
		Chaudhry, in what Labour Party officials concede is a strategy to allow him to make a graceful exit from leadership, if he chooses, say that he is unable to be part of a government that includes Fijian politicians implicated in the plot against his government.
		It was helped by a growing feeling in the indigenous Fijian community that the grassroots popularity Rabuka won as leader of a 1987 military coup against a new Indian dominated government had waned.
		These were to apparently gain time for the marshalling of indigenous Fijian opinion behind it and to avoid the very real risk of a violent indigenous Fijian backlash against the ruling that militant extremists could easily engineer.
	www.pacificislands.cc /issue/2001/04/01/what-next?printview=1 (1814 words)

	Moral Archive 15
		The Fijian Association faction, and members of the Nationalist Party were seen on the Parliament Complex with the terrorists.
		The deposed Deputy Prime Minister in the Coalition government said the party welcomed the ruling and he commended the population for their patience while the judiciary determined the legality or otherwise of the 1997 Constitution.
		Adi Kuini said the FAP would hold a meeting to discuss the judgment and this would be followed by a meeting between parties of the Coalition government.
	members.fortunecity.com /omegatimes/moral_15.htm (16216 words)

	1998 Human Rights Report - Fiji Country Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of the 46 communal seats, 23 are allotted to indigenous Fijians, 19 to Indo-Fijians, 3 are "general voter" (for the most part Caucasians and East Asians) seats, and 1 is allotted to the Rotumans (an ethnically distinct Polynesian people), roughly proportional to the different communities' representation in the population.
		The new Constitution mandates that all parties that gain more than 10 percent of parliamentary seats in general elections are to be invited to participate in a government of national unity.
		Women in both the Fijian and Indian communities have functioned primarily in traditional roles, although an increasing number of women are rising to prominent positions in politics and public service.
	www.usemb.se /human/human1998/fiji.html (4485 words)

	Fijian police seek Foster over resort claims - World - smh.com.au
		FIJIAN police are hunting Australia's most internationally renowned conman, Peter Foster, over a corporate sabotage in which a rival's resort development was promoted as a haven for pedophiles.
		The Fiji Hoteliers Association even compared gay-only resorts to "growing marijuana … it has good economic potential that could bring in a lot of revenue, but in the long run it has its negative social effects".
		Since 2001 Foster has been connected with New Labour Unity Party (Fiji), a Fijian political party, and was a major financial backer of the party, purportedly putting $1 million of his own money into it.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/fijian-police-seek-foster-over-resort-claims/2006/10/11/1160246197510.html (873 words)

	UNHCR - U.S. Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices 1998 - Fiji
		Of the 46 communal seats, 23 are allotted to indigenous Fijians, 19 to Indo-Fijians, 3 are "general voter" (for the most part Caucasians and East Asians) seats, and 1 is allotted to the Rotumans (an ethnically distinct Polynesian people), roughly proportional to the different communities' representation in the population.
		The new Constitution mandates that all parties that gain more than 10 percent of parliamentary seats in general elections are to be invited to participate in a government of national unity.
		Women in both the Fijian and Indian communities have functioned primarily in traditional roles, although an increasing number of women are rising to prominent positions in politics and public service.
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3ae6aa5f10.html (4477 words)

	Fiji: May Elections and the New Government (Current Issues Brief 17 1998-99)
		NVTLP: Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party: This party is the result of a merger between two extreme nationalist indigenous Fijian parties, the Vanua Tako Lavo Party and the Fijian Nationalist Party and is led by Sakeasi Butadroka, who opposed the new constitution and campaigned for a 'Fiji for the Fijians'.
		The party is a merger of the General Electors Party and the General Voters Party and led by David Pickering, Minister of Tourism.
		The party's manifesto declared that the only way to solve Fiji's economic and social problems and to ensure economic growth is through cooperation between ethnic groups and their parties.
	www.aph.gov.au /Library/pubs/cib/1998-99/99cib17.htm (7019 words)

	Multi-Party Government in Fiji : A Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Prime Minister’s party is not entitled to be offered additional Senate seats from among the 8 to be filled on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition.
		However, parties in coalition with the Prime Minister’s party are not to be regarded as members of the Prime Minister’s party for the purposes of sections 64 and 99.
		Upholding its opinions on the 1999 and 2002 references, the Court holds that parties entitled to be offered Cabinet seats under section 99 of the Constitution are to be identified by dividing the number of seats in the House of Representatives which each party holds by the total membership of the House.
	www.ccf.org.fj /artman/publish/article_328.shtml (2936 words)

	Fiji
		A consequence of the second 1987 coup was that the British Monarchy and the Governor General were replaced by a non-executive President, and the long form of the country's name changed from Dominion of Fiji to Republic of Fiji (in turn changed to Republic of the Fiji Islands in 1997).
		Fijian society is very communal, with great importance attached to the family unit, the village, and the vanua (land).
		The largest social unit for Fijians is the Yavusa, defined by historian R.A. Derrick as the "direct agnate descendants of a single kalou-vu" (deified ancestor), who is supposed to arrived with the legendary Lutunasobasoba migration.
	www.my-world-guide.com /country/87 (2585 words)

	Thuggery in Fiji
		The Indo Fijians are placing their hopes on their President Ratu Mara and Rabuka who has now become the Chairman of the "The Great Council of Chiefs" an important and respected post in a society where tribal loyalties to the chiefs are still dominant..
		It was just a year ago that the Fiji Labour Party headed by Mahendra Chaudhry was swept to power with seventy percent of the seats in a democratically conducted elections with the support of People’s Coalition consisting of the Fijian Association Party and the Party of National Unity.
		But after the 1987 coup a large number of well to do Indo Fijians migrated to Australia and New Zealand and at the moment the Indo Fijians form 44 percent, the indigenous Fijians 51 percent and the rest from other races, forming 800,000 in all.
	www.saag.org /notes/note93.html (1225 words)

	Marijuana a Fiji Election Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Just two days earlier, a Fijian soldier shot dead a villager in the neighboring province of Navosa in a drug raid that netted the tiny Pacific island nation's largest marijuana haul, worth $1.7 million (Fijian).
		Navosa's paramount chief, Adi Kuini Speed, who is leader of the Fijian Association Party and a deputy prime minister in the toppled democratically-elected Chauhdry government, has called for a national strategy to combat the growing use of marijuana.
		Poverty cycle 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.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v01.n1524.a01.html (383 words)

	Commonwealth Secretariat - Politics
		Following his victory, FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry became the first Indo-Fijian prime minister and, despite his party's overall majority in the House of Representatives, he formed a cabinet representing all four of the coalition partners.
		There then ensued continuous negotiations between the army and the rebels until the deadlock was finally broken in July, when the hostages were released, a new civilian president and 'emergency' government were appointed and backed by the military.
		But the impasse endured, with the two parties unable to agree on a list of cabinet appointments, the key issues being the number of FLP members (14 or 17) and whether Chaudhry himself should be included.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/YearbookInternal.asp?NodeID=138504&load=advsearch&PrintFriendly=True (821 words)

	UNHCR - Fiji: Land disputes between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians (1990-2000)
		According to the Australian Parliament's Parliamentary Library report, Rabuka conducted the coups "to restore indigenous Fijian dominance of Fiji politics" and "to ensure the subservience of the Indo-Fijian community to the Fijian majority" (1999).
		The Fijian population is comprised of "51 per cent indigenous Fijians, who are Christians of various denominations (mainly Methodists), 43 per cent Hindu and Muslim Indians (who are descendants of labourers brought in during British colonial rule)" (Parliament of Australia).
		The report states that the Sugar Cane Growers' Association claimed the lack of renewal was a "systematic campaign to deny the cane farmers their livelihoods, leaving them with no future in Fiji" (ibid.).
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3df4be311c.html (1151 words)

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