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Fiji Labour Party

Index Fiji Labour Party

The Fiji Labour Party (FLP) is a political party in Fiji. [1]

79 relations: Alliance Party (Fiji), Anirudh Singh, Ba (town), Ba Province, Cabinet of Fiji, Commodore (rank), Communal constituencies, Davendra Singh, Electoral fraud, Electoral reform, Epeli Ganilau, Fiji Sun, Fiji Television, Fiji Trades Union Congress, Fijian general election, 1982, Fijian general election, 1987, Fijian general election, 1994, Fijian general election, 1999, Fijian general election, 2001, Fijian general election, 2006, Fijian general election, 2014, Fijian municipal election, 2005, Fijians, FijiFirst, Frank Bainimarama, George Speight, House of Representatives of Fiji, Indians in Fiji, Instant-runoff voting, Jai Ram Reddy, James Shankar Singh, Kamisese Mara, Krishna Datt, Kuini Speed, Labasa, Laisenia Qarase, Lautoka, Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi, Local government in Fiji, Mahendra Chaudhry, Mahendra Sukhdeo, Memorandum of understanding, Mick Beddoes, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Fiji), Nadi, Nasinu, National Alliance Party of Fiji, National Farmers Union of Fiji, National Federation Party, Party of National Unity (Fiji), ..., People's Coalition (Fiji), Perumal Mupnar, Pine, Poseci Bune, Radio New Zealand, Raman Pratap Singh, Ratu, Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Satendra Nandan, Sitiveni Rabuka, Socialist International, Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua, Sugar City Ratepayers Alliance, Sugarcane, Supreme Court of Fiji, Suva, Suva City Council, Taxicab, Timoci Bavadra, Tupeni Baba, United Peoples Party (Fiji), University of the South Pacific, Value-added tax, Vijay R. Singh, Western United Front, 1987 Fijian coups d'état, 1997 Constitution of Fiji, 2000 Fijian coup d'état, 2006 Fijian coup d'état. Expand index (29 more) »

Alliance Party (Fiji)

The Alliance Party, was the ruling political party in Fiji from 1966 to 1987.

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Anirudh Singh

Dr Anirudh Singh is a Fiji Indian academic who has undertaken research on muon implantation in solids but is best known for the stand he has taken on national issues, in particular those relating to social inequities in Fiji, resulting from the 1987 military take-over of the Fijian Government.

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Ba (town)

Ba is a town in Fiji, 37 kilometres from Lautoka and 62 kilometres from Nadi, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island.

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Ba Province

Ba is a province of Fiji, occupying the north-western sector of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island.

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Cabinet of Fiji

Fiji has the Westminster system — executive authority is vested nominally in a President, but exercised in practice by a Cabinet of ministers, presided over by the Prime Minister.

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Commodore (rank)

Commodore is a naval rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral.

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Communal constituencies

Communal constituencies were the most durable feature of the Fijian electoral system.

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Davendra Singh

Davendra Singh (born 1950) was a Fiji Indian small businessman and politician who came into prominence when he challenged and defeated the official National Federation Party (NFP) candidate in a by-election in March 1985.

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Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud, election manipulation, or vote rigging is illegal interference with the process of an election, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.

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Electoral reform

Electoral reform is change in electoral systems to improve how public desires are expressed in election results.

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Epeli Ganilau

Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Ganilau, MC, MSD, (born 10 October 1951) is a Fijian soldier and politician, who currently heads the National Alliance Party of Fiji.

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Fiji Sun

The Fiji Sun is a daily newspaper published in Fiji since September 1999 and is owned by Sun (Fiji) News Limited.

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Fiji Television

Fiji Television Limited (SPSE: FTV) is Fiji's main television network.

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Fiji Trades Union Congress

The Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC) is a trade union organisation in Fiji that was founded in 1952 under the leadership of Pandit Ami Chandra as the Fiji Industrial Workers Congress (FIWC).

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Fijian general election, 1982

General elections were held in Fiji between 10 and 17 July 1982.

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Fijian general election, 1987

General elections were held in Fiji between 4 and 11 April 1987.

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Fijian general election, 1994

General elections were held in Fiji between 18 and 25 February 1994.

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Fijian general election, 1999

General elections were held in Fiji between 8 and 15 May 1999.

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Fijian general election, 2001

The Constitution of Fiji was restored by a High Court decision on 15 November 2000, following the failure of the political upheaval in which the government had been deposed and the constitution suspended in May that year.

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Fijian general election, 2006

The Constitution of Fiji requires general elections for the House of Representatives to be held at least once every five years.

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Fijian general election, 2014

General elections were held in Fiji on 17 September 2014,, Fiji government website, 1 July 2009 to select the 50 members of the Fijian parliament.

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Fijian municipal election, 2005

Municipal elections were held for 11 of Fiji's twelve city and town councils on 22 October 2005.

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Fijians

Fijians (iTaukei) are a nation and ethnic group native to Fiji, who speak Fijian and share a common history and culture.

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FijiFirst

FijiFirst is a registered political party in Fiji.

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Frank Bainimarama

Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama CF, MSD, OStJ (born 27 April 1954), known commonly as Frank Bainimarama and sometimes by the chiefly title Ratu, is a Fijian naval officer and politician who has been Prime Minister of Fiji since 2007.

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George Speight

George Speight (born 1957), occasionally known as Ilikini Naitini, was the leader of the Fiji coup of 2000, in which he and an elite unit of Fiji's military detained thirty-six members of parliament and held them hostage from May 19, 2000 to July 13, 2000.

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House of Representatives of Fiji

The House of Representatives was the lower chamber of Fiji's Parliament from 1970 to 2006.

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Indians in Fiji

Indo-Fijians are Fiji citizens who are fully or partially of Indian descent, which includes descendants who trace their heritage from various parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Instant-runoff voting

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates.

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Jai Ram Reddy

Jai Ram Reddy, CF (born 12 May 1937) is an Indo-Fijian politician, who has had a distinguished career in both the legislative and judicial branches of the Fijian government.

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James Shankar Singh

James Shankar Singh (May 10, 1924 – July 27, 2014) was a Fiji Indian farmer, businessman, social worker and politician who served as a Minister in the Alliance Government of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.

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Kamisese Mara

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, CF, GCMG, KBE (6 May 1920 – 18 April 2004) is considered the founding father of the modern nation of Fiji.

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Krishna Datt

Krishna Datt, last name sometimes spelt as Dutt, is a Fijian politician of Indian descent.

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Kuini Speed

Adi Kuini Teimumu Vuikaba Speed (23 December 1949 – 31 December 2004) was a Fijian chief and politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister in 1999 and 2000.

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Labasa

Labasa (pronounced) is a town in Fiji with a population of 27,949 at the most recent census held in 2007.

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Laisenia Qarase

Laisenia Qarase (pronounced; born 4 February 1941) is a Fijian political figure.

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Lautoka

Lautoka is the second largest city of Fiji.

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Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi

Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi, is a Fijian politician of Indian descent.

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Local government in Fiji

Fiji is divided administratively into four divisions, which are further subdivided into fourteen provinces; the self-governing island of Rotuma and its dependencies lie outside any of the four divisions.

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Mahendra Chaudhry

The Rt. Hon. Mahendra Pal Chaudhry (Fiji Hindi: महेन्द्र पाल चौधरी PBS, MP; born 9 February 1942) is an Indo-Fijian and the leader of the Fiji Labour Party.

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Mahendra Sukhdeo

Mahendra Sukhdeo (born 17 October 1940) is a former Fiji Indian unionist and politician, who was one of the founding members of the Fiji Labour Party, but only a few months later resigned from the party due to disagreement with the leadership over the direction in which the party was being steered.

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Memorandum of understanding

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties.

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Mick Beddoes

Mick Malcolm Millis Beddoes, widely known as Mick Beddoes, is a Fijian politician and businessman from Nadi, who led the United Peoples Party (formerly the United General Party) from 2000 to 2013, and was the Leader of the Opposition at the time of the military coup of 5 December 2006.

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Minister for Foreign Affairs (Fiji)

The Minister for Foreign Affairs (commonly known as the Foreign Minister) is Fiji's Cabinet Minister responsible for foreign relations and diplomacy and oversees its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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Nadi

Nadi (pronounced) is the third-largest conurbation in Fiji.

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Nasinu

Nasinu is an urban area on the island Viti Levu in Fiji.

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National Alliance Party of Fiji

The National Alliance Party of Fiji (NAPF) was a Fijian political party.

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National Farmers Union of Fiji

The National Farmers Union (NFU) is one of Fiji's largest trade unions.

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National Federation Party

The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party.

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Party of National Unity (Fiji)

The Party of National Unity (better known by its acronym of PANU) was a Fijian political party founded by Ratu Sairusi Nagagavoka in 1998; by the time of the military coup of 2006, Nagagavoka remained the President of the party.

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People's Coalition (Fiji)

The People's Coalition was an alliance of three political parties in Fiji, formed in March 1999 to contest the parliamentary election to be held in May that year.

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Perumal Mupnar

Perumal Mupnar is a former Fijian politician of Indian Tamil descent, who held the Yasawa Nawaka Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary election of 2001.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Poseci Bune

Poseci Waqalevu Bune is a former Fijian politician, who has served as Deputy Leader of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP).

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Radio New Zealand

Radio New Zealand (Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa), commonly known as RNZ, is a New Zealand public service radio broadcaster and Crown entity established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995.

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Raman Pratap Singh

Raman Pratap Singh is a Fijian lawyer and former politician of Indian descent.

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Ratu

Ratu (raatuu) is an Austronesian title used by Fijians of chiefly rank.

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Republic of Fiji Military Forces

The Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) is the military force of the Pacific island nation of Fiji.

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Satendra Nandan

Dr Satendra Pratap Nandan (born 1939) is a Fiji Indian academic, writer and former politician.

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Sitiveni Rabuka

Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka, OBE, MSD, OStJ, (born 13 September 1948) is best known as the instigator of two military coups that shook Fiji in 1987.

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Socialist International

The Socialist International (SI) is a worldwide association of political parties, which seek to establish democratic socialism.

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Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua

The United Fiji Party (Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua, SDL) was a political party in Fiji.

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Sugar City Ratepayers Alliance

The Sugar City Ratepayers Alliance (SCRA) was a Fijian political party that operated only on the municipal level, in the city of Lautoka.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Supreme Court of Fiji

The Supreme Court of Fiji is one of three courts established by now-defunct Chapter 9 of the Constitution, the others being the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

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Suva

Suva is the capital and largest metropolitan city in Fiji.

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Suva City Council

The Suva City Council is the municipal law-making body of the city of Suva, Fiji's capital.

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Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.

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Timoci Bavadra

Timoci Uluivuda Bavadra (22 September 1934 – 3 November 1989) was a Fijian medical doctor who founded the Fiji Labour Party and served as the Prime Minister of Fiji for one month in 1987.

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Tupeni Baba

Tupeni Lebaivalu Baba is a Fijian academic and politician, who founded the now-defunct New Labour Unity Party.

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United Peoples Party (Fiji)

The United Peoples Party was a minor political party in Fiji.

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University of the South Pacific

The University of the South Pacific, or USP is an intergovernmental organisation and public research university with a number of locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania.

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Value-added tax

A value-added tax (VAT), known in some countries as a goods and services tax (GST), is a type of tax that is assessed incrementally, based on the increase in value of a product or service at each stage of production or distribution.

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Vijay R. Singh

Sir Vijay Raghubar Singh, KBE (13 July 1931 – 25 September 2006) was an Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician who held Cabinet office in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Western United Front

Western United Front (WUF) was an ethnically Fijian political party formed prior to the 1982 elections and contested the election in coalition with the National Federation Party (NFP-WUF Coalition).

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1987 Fijian coups d'état

The Fiji coups of 1987 resulted in the overthrow of the elected government of Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, the deposition of Elizabeth II as Queen of Fiji, and in the declaration of a republic.

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1997 Constitution of Fiji

The 1997 Constitution of Fiji was the supreme law of Fiji from its adoption in 1997 until 2009 when President Josefa Iloilo purported to abrogate it.

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2000 Fijian coup d'état

The Fiji coup of 2000 was a complicated affair involving a civilian coup d'état by hardline i-Taukei nationalists against the elected government of a Fijian of Indian Descent Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, on 19 May 2000, the attempt by President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to assert executive authority on 27 May, and his own resignation, possibly forced, on 29 May.

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2006 Fijian coup d'état

The Fijian coup d'état of December 2006 occurred as a continuation of the pressure which had been building since the military unrest of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état and 2005–06 Fijian political crisis.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Labour_Party

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