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Sydney, Australia, Dec 14 (EFE).- The elections to decide 55 members of Parliament in Fiji, one of the most important island nations in the Pacific, concluded Wednesday with a low voter turnout, according to preliminary official data. The country’s election supervisor Mohammed Saneem, at a press conference in Suva, announced the end of the polling …
Cometh the hour, cometh the man Dec 15, 2020
Rabuka turns his back on Parliament – again
After losing the 1999 General Election to the Fiji Labour Party under Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka resigned. His deputy in the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni iTaukei – Ratu Inoke Kubuabola – took over the leadership and became Leader of the Opposition.
Rabuka has never taken rejection well. In 1999 the voters’ rejection of him either for leading the military coups of 1987 or embracing Jai Ram Reddy’s National Federation Party in an attempt at national unity, led to the SVT’s annihilation at the polls. He stepped aside and took up the position of first commoner to lead the now defunct Bose Levu Vakaturaga, often referred to as the Great Council of Chiefs.