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FLP reads back Parliament Guide Book to Speaker: 'Well Madam Speaker the people generally understand the parliament to be a chamber where  Opposition is muted by a bullying government, ably assisted by [YOU]

9/2/2017

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"In a picture story on the front page of today’s Fiji Times [8 February], the Speaker is seen showing the guide book to the PM, the Opposition Leader and NFP Leader. All three are wearing gleeful smiles on their faces...There must have been something really funny for the Opposition Leader and her NFP colleague to put on such delightful faces."

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Guide book for a gagged parliament?

It makes amusing reading to note that a guide book has been published by the UNDP to assist our MPs find their feet in Parliament.

In a picture story on the front page of today’s Fiji Times, the Speaker is seen showing the guide book to the PM, the Opposition Leader and NFP Leader. All three are wearing gleeful smiles on their faces.

The Speaker in her launch speech is reported to have said, “I am quite passionate about opening Parliament by creating the enabling environment and opportunities for citizens to understand this institution, how it works and how they engage in the work of parliament.”

Well Madam Speaker the people generally understand the institution of parliament to be a chamber where:

• The Opposition is muted by a bullying government ably assisted by a helpful speaker
• A chamber where Ministers do not give honest answers to straight questions and where the Opposition MPs get the boot if they speak their mind – currently the number of booted out MPs stands at 3
• It is also known as the chamber where MPs approve for themselves huge increases in pay and travel allowances while half the nation starves

In her speech, the Speaker warned that the Guide Book does not replace the Standing Orders which she says is “the definitive rule for the way the Parliament operated”.

Well, there is nothing definitive about the Standing Orders as far as we know because these can be amended anytime the FF government feels it needs more control over the parliamentary process. A case in point: when the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee was taken away from the Opposition.

Despite all this, there must have been something really funny for the Opposition Leader and her NFP colleague to put on such delightful faces.

BUSTING UP THE RULE BOOK: FIGHT ERUPTS IN SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT

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Punches have been thrown in South Africa's parliament as opposition MPs tried to disrupt the State of the Nation address by President Jacob Zuma. Members of the radical Economic Freedom Fighters' party (EFF), all dressed in red, scuffled with security guards who ejected them from the chamber. Mr Zuma had twice got to his feet but was shouted down by EFF MPs.
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Fiji First Party
10/2/2017 08:51:35 pm

The parliamentary guide book should presently be of no concern to Chaudhary or his (four men) FLP because (as we all know) they have no representation in the Parliament and which such scenario is highly unlikely to change in the next elections as well –with or without the aggressive arse-licking that MPC is doing on the Racist Rabuka.

And that’s probably the reason for their gleeful smiles as this world’s most pitiable IP Thief (CHOR) Bainimarama must have pointed the obvious fact of Chaudhary's insignificance out to the rest.

Qali Qali Meh Shor Hai....

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Chiku
15/2/2017 12:12:58 am

Butareki going on in the parliament of Mandela's " Rainbow Nation"!
Apartheid white racist rule was bad. But just what kind of rule do we have under the black fellas who have taken over ?
We too make a lot of noise about white colonial rule. But what kind of rule do we have with black people taking over - with rampant corruption, nepotism, lack of respect for the rule of law, lack of regard for human rights and democratic freedoms( like a truly free and independent media and judiciary and a fearless opposition) and a cowered citizenry?

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Bahuki
15/2/2017 02:57:01 am

Well what can one expect, the speaker is a pawn and government is always a big bully picking on the little kid known as the opposition

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