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Fiji Islands Government 2006 to 2010 - the 4th Coup - Frank Bainimarama Fiji's current government is run by a self elected Prime Minister, army frontman Commodore Frank Bainimarama who took over the government of the day forcibly and illegally during a military coup in December 2006. Since that date, a government has been formed to steer the country to a more democratic and racially tolerant society free from corruption, the power of the Methodist Church and Fijian chiefly politics that has caused years of power struggles and resulted in Fiji's coup culture. Unfortunately the country has struggled financially, partly due to the Global Financial Crisis, partly from the broken relationships between its two closest neighbours, New Zealand and Australia as well as with other Pacific neighbours, but mostly due to a massive loan the previous Qarase government brokered to fund its irresponsible spending spree between 2001 and 2006. Oddly, the coup of 2006 was declared as a coup to end all coups. In its forty years of Independence from British rule, the country has been plagued by a succession of four military takeovers - and what has shamefully become known as "Fiji's Coup Culture". One of the main intentions of the 2006 coup was to weed out corruption, as well as to prevent two highly contentious Bills from being passed - the Qoliqoli Bill which would have given absolute sea rights to the indigenous landowners (and effectively bankrupted the tourism industry) = Fijians who by law own 80% of the land in Fiji yet contribute under 10% of its GDP. More importantly and gallantly, the military coup aimed to create a more democratic electoral system forcing a change on one of the most contentious and disrespectful issue of the 1997 Constitution - racial politics with a government elected entirely on racial circumstances. Fijians voted for Fijian parliamentarians whilst Indians voted for Indian parliamentarians, and the end result had to be a Fijian dominated government and a racially divided country. Bainimarama set about re-writing the Constitution by way of the People's Charter, a representation of what the people of Fiji wanted for the country. Commendable as this may appear, the manner in which this has been brought about is far from democratic. In the course of two years, Bainimarama expelled three expatriate newspaper publishers for speaking out against the government and human rights violations have become an increasing concern. Race remains a serious thorn of everyday life in Fiji whilst the Fijian civil service weighs heavily on society whilst producing nothing effective in return. 2002 - 2006 - The Qarase Government The Qarase Government was put in place in 2002 after the Civilian Coup of 2000 had been stamped out by the Military, led by Frank Bainimarama who would subsequently lead his own coup against this newly installed Fijian dominated government. During its first term Qarase enjoyed a period of economic growth fuelled by irresponsible borrowing and massive long term tax incentives to investors to bank role his government. In short, Qarase was nothing but a short term opportunist lining the pockets of his Fijian fiends. Outwardly, blatant corruption by high chiefs and bickering over such sensitive issues as land rights brought his government to shame. However, with no other option in a poorly managed voting system. Qarase and his Fijian party marginally won the General Elections in 2006 although he had to offer almost half of his seats and several of his minister portfolios to the Indian run Fiji Labour Party in what became an ineffective hung parliament. 2000 to 2001 - the 3rd Coup - George Speight An interim government was appointed in 2001 and headed by a Fijian chief named Qarase and thanks to the persistent efforts of Fiji Commander in Chief Bainamara, most of those implemented in the coup have been sent to jail including several prominent high chiefs, although early release made mockery of their sever sentences of treason. 1999 - The Chaundry Government In 1999, the Indian dominated Fiji Labour Party, lead by Mahendra Chaundry, won the general elections and became the first Indian led party to govern Fiji. But not for long. The third coup in Fiji's short history since Independence (1970), saw the commoner George Speight overtake Parliament with a vicious attack which resulted in 50 government workers including Chaundry being held hostage at Parliament House. After almost two months of negotiations, the hostages were released and Speight, found guilty of Treason, ended up in jail on the beautiful sandy island of Nukulau off Suva being . Fiji's Constitution - 1997 The current constitution was drafted in the mid 1990's after the two coups of 1987 declared Fiji's past Constitution nullified. The 1997 Constitution came into effect in 1997 and declares that he government be based on a parliament with a 71 seat House of Representatives - 25 seats are voted for from multi-racial elections, 23 seats are reserved for indigenous Fijians, 19 for Indo-Fijians, 3 for General electors (Europeans, part-Fijians, Chinese) and 1 for Rotumans. The leader of the largest party in government becomes the prime minister. Fiji also has a 32 member Senate with 14 members appointed by the Great Council of Chiefs, 9 by the prime minister, 8 by the leader of the opposition and 1 by the Council of Rotuma. The Great Council of Chiefs also appoint Fiji's head of state, the President. The House of Representatives, the Senate and the title of President are all for a five year term. Book your Holiday with the Specialists  Fiji Holidays & Hotels
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