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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).  This biography of a prominent Fiji Islander is a stub. She served as president of her party from 1976 to 1979. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irene_Jai_Narayan

National Federation Party (Fiji) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The party was sending copies of the petition, along with a statement of the party's objections to the bill in English, Fijian, and Hindustani to all schools, other organizations, and islands in Fiji. At the August conference, the party decided that a preference deal with the ruling United Fiji Party (SDL) in the parliamentary election scheduled for 2006 would be conditional on the government withdrawing its Reconciliation and Unity Bill. While admitting that his party owed several seats to the NFP, he told the Fiji Live news service that they were dependent on his party's preferences also. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Federation_Party_(Fiji)

G21 ASIA - FIJI: Nation at Pointblank In July 1990 Rabuka adopted a new constitution giving more powers to indigenous Fijians and the party of Rabuka won the election and he was made the Prime Minister. Fiji was expelled from the Commonwealth of the Nations in 1987 in the wake of coups and was not readmitted until the reforms of 1997. The population of Fiji is 44% Indo-Fijians (Fijians of Indian origin) and 51% native Fijians. www.g21.net /asia24.htm

A short history of the Fiji Islands These elections are won by a coalition of the Fiji Labour Party and the National Federation Party, both largely drawing support from the population of Indian descent. Rabuka becomes prime minister in 1992 in a coalition led by his Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (Fijian Political Party, SVT). These are won by the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua/United Fiji Party (SDL), though the FLP has a higher popular vote. www.electionworld.org /history/fiji.htm

Fiji Labour Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article 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. 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. 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.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fi/Fiji_Labour_Party.htm

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. SDL National Director Jale Baba announced on 11 September 2005 that the party would contest all 71 parliamentary seats in the 2006 election. The United Fiji Party contested 59 of the 71 parliamentary seats in the 2001 elections; this figure included only 7 of the 19 seats reserved for Indo-Fijians. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Fiji_Party

FLP History 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. 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. In a judgment delivered on 15 February 2002, the Fiji Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Fiji Labour Party in the multi-party cabinet case. www.flp.org.fj /history.htm

Background Notes Archive - East Asia and the Pacific 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. Fiji maintains a 600-man battalion with the UN forces in Lebanon and a 400-man battalion in the Multinational Force of Observers in the Sinai. dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/eap/fiji9605.html

Indo-Fijian The party currently favoured by Indo-Fijians is the Fiji Labour Party, led by Mahendra Chaudhry, which received about 75 percent of the Indo-Fijian vote in 2001, and won all 19 seats reserved for Indo-Fijians. The constitution of Fiji defines "Indian" as anybody who can trace, through either the male or the female line, their ancestry back to anywhere on the Indian subcontinent. Indo-Fijians comprised the majority of the population in the 1970s, but by 2000 this had declined to 43.7 percent, because of a higher Fijian peopleethnic-Fijian birthrate and particularly because of the greater tendency of Indo-Fijians to emigrate. www.infothis.com /find/Indo-Fijian

National Federation Party (Fiji) - Wikipedia Wähle „National Federation Party (Fiji) suchen“ um nach National Federation Party (Fiji) zu suchen. Ein Wörterbucheintrag zu National Federation Party (Fiji) hat seinen Platz im Wiktionary (Wiktionary). de.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Federation_Party_(Fiji)

2109_E.htm During the electoral campaign, leaders of the two major parties, the Fijian United Party (SDL) and the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) accused each other of being racists, but agreed that if any party won the minimum number of seats (8), the winner would invite it to join the Cabinet, as stipulated under the Constitution. Fiji has been rocked by three racially inspired coups and a military mutiny since 1987, fuelled by indigenous Fijian fears that the country's minority ethnic Indians, who dominate the economy, would also dominate politically. The Fiji High Court ruled in July 2001 that the elections could proceed, upholding the decision of the emergency government to dismiss the elected government of Mr. www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2109_E.htm

Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Another boycott looming in Fiji's sugar industry Another boycott is looming in Fiji's ailing sugar industry, with cane farmers organization, the National Farmers Union, threatening a harvest boycott. Mika Loga reports, Fiji is expected to witness yet another cane battle between two major Indo Fijian political parties who have great influence in the country's sugar industry. The Association was not happy with the national sugar company's decision to receive only 68 percent of the harvested cane from farmers. www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_858575.htm

Elections in the Fiji Islands Fijian Political Party (Soqosoqo ni Vakavatuwa ni Taukei) Freedom House considers Fiji to be a partly free country. Bai kei Viti (Fortress for the people of Fiji) www.electionworld.org /fiji.htm

The Militant - July 10, 2000 -- Fiji farmer speaks on fight against rightist coup, military takeover For example, Jagnath Sami, a prominent cane farmer and a leader of the Fiji Cane Growers Association who stood unsuccessfully for the National Federation Party (NFP) in the 1999 election, has opposed harvesting, Singh explained. He is a supporter of the Labour Party, Fiji's only nonracial party, which was founded in 1985. Speight and his gunmen took Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and other politicians in the Fiji Labour Party—led government hostage in Parliament. www.themilitant.com /2000/6427/642750.html

CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background Presently the island is a National Wildlife Refuge run by the US Department of the Interior; a day beacon is situated near the middle of the west coast. Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Parliamentary elections held in August 2001 provided Fiji with a democratically elected government and gave a mandate to the government of Prime Minister Laisenia QARASE. www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html

FCGA happy with reduction of resettlement grant The National Federation Party backed Fiji Cane Growers Association has welcomed the decision of the regime to allow farmers to use the $10,000 which it has allocated to resettle farmers, for payment of goodwill to landowners. www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no654.htm

Fiji - History Fiji is a Sovereign Democratic Republic and its Parliament may legislate for the peace, welfare and good government of the State in all matters. Fiji has a bicameral Parliament, consisting of His Excellency the President, an elected House of Representatives and a nominated Senate. Fiji returned to parliamentary democracy on the 29 June, 1992 when His Excellency the President, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, opened the First Session of the new Parliament House. www.appf.org.pe /countries/fiji/history.htm

Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Warning issued to Fiji cane farmers over threatened boycott The NFU is also not happy with last week's agreement between the National Sugar company and the National Federation Party backed Fiji Cane Growers Association - that the FSC accept all the harvested cane from the farmers and will compensate them from any standing cane when the 2003 harvesting season ends in December. Now the Fiji Cane Growers Association is calling on cane farmers not to be fooled by the National Farmers Union boycott threat. Calls have been made to Fiji's cane farmers not to be fooled by politicians who are threatening a nationwide boycott of the ailing sugar industry. www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_861745.htm

Patriotism will lead to stability: Singh - Fiji Times Online Party president Raman Singh said the Feds had led the struggle for Fiji's independence and believed the nation needed leaders prepared to sacrifice their self-interest. In his Fiji Day message, Mr Singh said when Fiji became independent, it was a momentous occasion for all her people. "Instead of uniting as a nation, our leaders have created a racial gulf that is tearing our island nation apart." He called on Fiji's leaders to find common ground. www.fijitimes.com /story.aspx?id=29979

Party geared up for poll - Fiji Times Online He said there were ongoing talks with the Fiji Labour Party president Mahendra Chaudry, New Alliance Party president Ratu Epeli Ganilau and the National Federation Party's Parmod Rao. Party president Mick Beddoes said the UPP's preparations for the elections would be completed soon. The party wanted to contest all 71 seats in the House of Representatives but that would depend on the aspiring candidates, Mr Beddoes said. www.fijitimes.com /story.aspx?id=29990

Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> ‘Expose true motives behind May 19 coup’ The region's most distinguished statesman, Mara was Fiji's prime minister for 17 years after it gained independence from the Britain in October 1970 until his Alliance Party lost the elections to the Fiji National-National Federation Party in 1987. Suva: Fiji's former president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara has urged the country's authorities to investigate and expose the true motives behind the May 19 coup that was carried out by failed businessman George Speight. Mara, 80, who was forced to relinquish office and flee Suva in a naval vessel a few days after the coup, said this was necessary for the healing process in the country to be successful and to avoid further uprisings in the future. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/10/17/motives.html

Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> "Fiji mutiny indicator of declining respect for law and order" Suva: A former government minister and attorney general of Fiji, Sir Vijay R. Singh, has said Thursday's attempted mutiny by renegade soldiers at a military base here was a manifestation of a declining respect for law and order in Fiji. The military, which is propping up Fiji's interim government, is seen as the last bastion against anarchy in this ethnically and politically polarized country. The mutineers, who belonged to the same unit that backed the May 19 coup by failed businessman George Speight against Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry, were attempting to assassinate chief of the military forces, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, and install a new order. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/11/07/vijay.html

Pacific Media Watch An international five-judge bench will hear the Fiji Labour Party's appeal over exclusion from the multi-party government formed by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase after last September's general election. The Fiji Labour Party leader, whose power-sharing constitutional challenge against the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase is being heard by the Court of Appeal this week, wrote that it was obvious from the "vicious reaction of your editorial writer that the truth in this case is quite unpalatable". The party argues that with 27 seats in the 71-seat Parliament it is entitled to a 47 percent share of cabinet seats. www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/fiji3516.html

Colour, Class and Custom: Notes Fijians themselves, few of whom have a detailed knowledge of Fiji's pre-colonial history (which regrettably is not taught in most schools), are apt to consider the village practices with which they have grown up as being 'traditional', even though these practices may in fact have developed within the last one or two generations. [15] Fiji's economy has largely recovered (thanks to tax-free zones which act as incentives for overseas investors), although it is doubtful whether ordinary Fiji citizens are seeing the benefits of this recovery. [36] Once the eventual independence of Fiji was seen as inevitable (given the world's changing political climate), the colonial government carefully groomed a number of chiefs to assume the mantle of power. speedysnail.com /pacific/fiji_coup/notes.html

Fiji election of 1987 The Fijian AllianceAlliance Party of the longtime List of Prime Ministers of FijiPrime Minister, Kamisese MaraRatu Sir Kamisese Mara, was defeated by a multiracial coalition, consisting of the Fiji Labour Party (contesting the election for the first time) and the National Federation Party (Fiji)National Federation Party. (Fiji then had a complex voting system, allocating ethnic Fijians and Indo-Fijians 22 seats each, with a further 8 reserved for Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities; about half of representatives for each ethnic group represented "communal" constituencies, elected from closed electoral rolls, while the other half represented "national" constituencies, elected by universal suffrage). Bavadra's 28 member Parliamentary caucus included only 7 Fijian peopleethnic Fijians, all of them elected with predominantly Indo-Fijian support from "national" as opposed to "communal" electorates. www.infothis.com /find/Fiji_election_of_1987

AsiaMedia :: FIJI: Fiji Media Council upholds Chaudhry complaint Fiji TV should have made it clear who was responsible for the statement - rival National Federation Party politician Pramod Rae. A Fiji TV news item on 20 January 2004 claimed that a Hindi language leaflet distributed by the Fiji Labour Party during the Tavua byelection had made a reference to "the government and the indigenous people as having devil powers". SUVA (PMW Fiji/Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Media Council has upheld a complaint by former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry against Fiji Television, saying the channel had "become a party to deception" over a controversial Hindi phrase. www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=9077

Pacific Media Watch Leaders of the Fiji Labour Party, National Federation Party and United General Party had earlier hit out at statements by Savea blaming Indo-Fijians and Asians as the cause of ethnic division in Fiji. He said what was demanded was that the people of Fiji – the majority of the nation – decide and have control of their destiny. They were reacting to his editorial, which claimed ethnic division in Fiji was a result of Indians refusing to marry or socialise with indigenous Fijians. www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/reg3931.html

Cafe Pacific: Nius Country Profiles: Fiji Islands The Opposition comprised the National Federation Party (Opposition leader Jai Ram Reddy) and the Fiji Labour Party and sought a non-racially biased constitution. On 18 May 1999, former trade unionist Mahendra Chaudhry was sworn in as the first Indo-Fijian prime minister of Fiji after his Fiji Labour Party swept to a landslide victory in the first general election under the 1997 constitution. Rabuka was elected Prime Minister in May 1992 as head of a Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (Fiji Political Party) coalition. www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/profiles/fiji.html

IndoFiji.com - Connecting Indo-Fijians Worldwide News FIJI Touch Rugby president Tevita Mau said the introduction of statistics hadhelped them prepare for the All Nations competition, which will be held at the end of the month in New Zealand. FIJI Police team coach Ifereimi Tawake said discipline was the key ingredient for any team to win a competition. FIJI Rugby Union acting chief executive Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua said security at today's Farebrother Sullivan trophy challenge between Suva and Nadroga would be tight. www.indofiji.com /fijinews.asp

The Fiji Sun As Fiji was preparing for Independence, the then Opposition Leader Siddiq Koya in a meeting with Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara referred to the troubles in Mauritius during pre-independence elections and said it would greatly help in a peaceful transition to independence if there was no election at that time. It said that the Deed of Cession of 1874, which ceded Fiji to Great Britain, was generally regarded by the Fijians as their Magna Carta, giving them inalienable rights over the colony’s land. Delivering the keynote address at the Fiji Law Society convention on July 2, Vice President and Bau chief Turaga a Roko Tui Bau, Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi said, “Most indigenous Fijians believe that their interests can only be protected by Fijian political control. www.sun.com.fj /Previous_Days/Saturday/News/FijiSun_Sat_News6.htm

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