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Showing posts with label Fiji Election. Show all posts
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Sunday, 23 December 2018

The Fiji Pantomime Continues: Opposition Withdraws Petition:

What happened, Legally Why and Politically Possibly Why  
Justice Anjala Wati pn212

Justice Kamal Kumar

The Pantomime continues.  FijiFirst MPs have had a good nights sleep at home after the discomfort of bedding down in Suvavou House where, depending on your viewpoint, they were either hiding to  avoid being served with SODELPA election petition writs, or having a 48-hour strategic policy meeting. Either way, the petition was later served, on the instruction of the Court of Disputed Returns, via the printed media.   

I wrote previously on the issue and concluded, Let the Court Decide (pn 208) on the merits or otherwise of the petition. Prof Vijay Naidu said it was an opportunity to clear up grey areas of the election process.    

 Unfortunately, this was not to be.