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IN FIJI TREASON IS OK. Mahendra Chaudhry slams Bainimarama and Khaiyum as his attempt to contest election ends in failure in High court

26/7/2017

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“It is an anathema that those who have committed the most heinous crime of treason – not once but several times – and have granted themselves immunity under a tailor-made constitution are free to contest the elections while barring others who they perceive a threat to their hold on power. ” - FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry

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Fijileaks: When did Frank Bainimarama's coup become TREASON? Was it after Chaudhry left as Bainimarama's Interim Minister of Finance, Sugar Industry and National Infrastructure?
And what about his new found coalition partner and SODELPA leader Sitiveni Rabuka? Rabuka carried out not one but two coups and gave himself and other conspirators IMMUNITY in his tailor-made 1990 Constitution and which was carried forward into 1997 and 2013 Constitutions

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In Fiji #treason is ok...Fiji Labour Party

Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry and trade unionist Karam Bidesi today withdrew their application to the High Court challenging the constitutional provisions which bar them from contesting the 2018 general elections.

The defendants in the action (the State and the Attorney General) had filed an application to have the action struck down.


The decision to withdraw the matter was taken when the Judge declined to grant an adjournment to the plaintiffs to enable them to file amended summons.

Commenting on the proceedings, Mr Chaudhry said he was disappointed that their request for an adjournment was denied.

Under Section 56 of the imposed 2013 Constitution, anyone convicted of an offence punishable by a term of imprisonment of 12 months or more, is barred from contesting the elections for 8 years ( two parliamentary terms).

Section 57 defines Trade unionists as holders of public office and bars them forever. Under no stretch of the imagination can trade unionists be described as holders of public office.

Section 56 is peculiar in that no previous constitution carried any such provision. Even the Electoral Commission in its 2014 annual report recommended that this provision be amended as it was too severe. However, the government has taken no action in the matter.

It is clear to all that Section 56 was deliberately inserted to bar former Prime Ministers Mahendra Chaudhry and Laisenia Qarase from contesting future elections. It was a pre-meditated “dirty tricks” plan hatched by Bainimarama and Khaiyum.

Readers may recall Bainimarama's oft-repeated public pronouncements that neither Chaudhry nor Qarase will be in parliament in 2014.

In 2012 Mr Qarase was convicted on a matter that went back 20 years and sentenced to one year imprisonment.

In Mr Chaudhry’s case, he was charged for a matter that he had been completely cleared off by an independent inquiry in 2008. He was not jailed, but the offence under the Exchange Control Act carried a sentence of more than a one year jail term.

Speaking on the injustice of the situation, Mr Chaudhry said, “It is an anathema that those who have committed the most heinous crime of treason – not once but several times – and have granted themselves immunity under a tailor-made constitution are free to contest the elections while barring others who they perceive a threat to their hold on power. ”

“As far as I am concerned, the matter is still very much in the public domain. The constitutional provisions in question constitute a violation of our fundamental rights and were decreed by a group of people simply to protect their political interests,” he said.

Rajendra Chaudhry: "Alfred J[udge] was said to be overly rude, argumentative and discourtsous at time to Anand Singh during the proceedings."

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Says alot of the Judiciary in Fiji doesn't it folks?

And Chaudhry's challenge to the draconian provisions of the unmandated 2013 CONstitution has only just begun folks.

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VICTOR LAL:
Chaudhry and Qarase: Strange Political Bedfellows
"In 2008, after a lengthy three-year investigation, I was ready to expose Mahendra Chaudhry's $2million that he was hiding from the taxpayers of Fiji. I gave the then deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase the option to go public with my findings. After some exchanges, it was agreed that I should go ahead with the revelation in the Fiji Sun. I did which, as we know, resulted in the abduction, detention, and deportation of Fiji Sun publisher Russell Hunter out of Fiji. The morning the revelation appeared in the Fiji Sun, Sitiveni Rabuka was among the many who congratulated the paper for exposing Chaudhry. Today the trio - Chaudhry, Qarase and Rabuka - have bandied together to challenge Bainimarama. Politics, hypocrisy, and opportunism make strange bedfellows. The biggest shock was when Anand Singh, FLP's former Attorney-General, who had filled me with  some very vital missing details, turned up as Chaudhry's lawyer after the FLP leader was charged with foreign currency offences. Today Singh is back in court on behalf of Mahendra Chaudhry!
Cry the Beloved Country!

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4 Comments
MAKEfjdENTERpoliticsORcoup
26/7/2017 01:12:32 am

Chaudary and his hooligans have become a joke, just like current corrupt monekys sitting in chairs

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Chiku
26/7/2017 02:29:32 am

All you good people of Fiji get used to it. Double standards has become the norm in the application of the law in Fiji. If you are a crony of the gang in power the law will be bent to accomodate your transgression. If you are an opponent or critic of the gang in power the law will be used to phuck you.

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Rajend Naidu
26/7/2017 02:40:16 am

Editor,
The Age 23 July has an article written by management experts titled There Are Two Kinds of People : ' Truth-tellers ' and ' Manipulators '.
We are very familiar with these two kinds of people in post coup Fiji.
The Manipulators thrive in the kind of politics that's in currency in contemporary Fiji.
Fijileaks and other blog sites have provided numerous examples of this trend in post coup Fiji politics.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Sanjay Sharma
26/7/2017 09:58:16 am

Compared to bainimarma/kaiyum, chaudhary is a much lesser evil. He stole money that wasn't from taxpayers of Fiji. The current lot are doing daylight robbery of our tax dollars. There is so much corruption and nepotism in the civil service. The rot exposed by auditor general is tip of iceberg. Lots more goes undetected and unreported. The difference is that Chaudary was framed in a minor tax avoidance case with the help of the corrupted judiciary in Fiji while others are roaming free with the help of kaiyum and the same tainted judiciary. I would chose Chaudhary over bainimarama/kaiyum any day if he stands in the election.

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