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Fiji Labour Party's Chaudhry Accepts Cabinet Role
Fiji: A Onetime Coup Victim Becomes Coup d’état Beneficiary
Pacific News: Fiji Labour Party's Mahendra Chaudhry Accepts Cabinet Role
For more see… Fiji Times and FijiLive.com
Scoop Link: Fiji’s Labour leader Mahendra Chaudhry was
emotional this morning saying his swearing-in as interim
Finance Minister was a "strange twist of destiny." Chaudhry
is also interim Minister for National Planning, Public
Enterprises and Sugar Reform. He said he was given the same
post exactly 20 years ago when former Prime Minister
Sitiveni Rabuka overthrew the Bavadra government. See… FijiLive: Chaudhry Sworn In As Fiji Finance
Minister and Deputy PM
Chaudhry admitted his appointment by military coup leader, Frank Bainimarama was "a strange twist of fate".
Fiji's interim Prime Minister and army commander Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama is expected to hold his first meeting with his team of interim ministers next Tuesday.
This was revealed by National Alliance Party leader, Ratu Epeli Ganilau (army commander from 1992 to 1999, more recently the chair of the Great Council of Chiefs, and a son of the late President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, and is married to the eldest daughter of the late President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.).
Ratu Epeli will join the interim government as Minister for Fijian Affairs. See… FijiLive: Fiji Interim Cabinet To Meet Tuesday Next Week
Newly-appointed interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has betrayed democracy, said National Federation Party secretary Pramod Rae. The Fiji Labour Party has defied logic, although being the victims of three coups it has joined a military regime which had overthrown a democratically elected government, said Rae. See… FijiLive: Chaudhry Defied Democracy
ALSO; SCOOP SPECIAL FEATURE AND AUDIO REPORTS
KiwiFM Audio: Those who have until now remained in the shadows, who have been publicly silent but privately influential in moving Fiji's military to overthrow the elected government - have emerged. Scoop's Selwyn Manning talks to KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman about what this means for New Zealand and the wider Pacific region.KiwiFM Audio: Selwyn Manning talks to Wallace Chapman about how NZ has recommitted to RAMSI: The move sends a signal out with ever increasing importance. The state of the Pacific is now extremely fragile. What's really shaping up across the Pacific Arc of Instability?Scoop
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