ISA LEI: Lauan villagers claim Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu's comments should have been considered in the context of the feud between Jiko Yasa (nee Luveni) and Milika Luveni

ISA LEI: Lauan villagers claim Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu's comments should have been considered in the context of the feud between Jiko Yasa (nee Luveni) and Milika Luveni - 'coveting behaviour & personality'

2/6/2015

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IN LAU: Villagers say 'vutusona' comments against Luveni has origins in their village! As stressed previously, Fijileaks does not condone Lalabalavu's comments but villagers claim if Privileges Committee had dug deeper, the punishment might have been less severe - the two year ban from Parliament

The Italian Job: Cunning resignation to become Parliamentary Speaker

A-G files petition against Sodelpa MP Mikaele Leawere's appointment by the Electoral Commission
Fiji Times
Saturday, May 23, 2015

AN election petition filed by the Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum objecting to the decision of the Electoral Commission to elect Mikaele Leawere as a member of Parliament was called for the first time before Justice David Alfred in the High Court in Suva yesterday.

The petition was filed last Wednesday by the Attorney-General in the Court of Disputed Returns against the Electoral Commission and Mr Leawere, a SODELPA MP.

Devanesh Sharma appeared for the petitioner, the Attorney-General while Virisila Lidise appeared for the first respondent, the Electoral Commission, and Jon Apted appeared for Mr Leawere who was the second respondent.

The petition seeks a determination that the Electoral Commission erred in law in awarding a vacant parliamentary seat to Mr Leawere, who was the SODELPA candidate with the highest number of votes in the September 2014 General Election, and who was not a member of Parliament.

The seat was vacated when SODELPA MP Ratu Viliame Tagivetaua died on March 5 this year and the commission subsequently awarded the seat to Mr Leawere on May 5.

Under section 64 of the Constitution, when a seat of a member from a political party becomes vacant, the Commission must award the seat to the candidate of the same party who in the past general election is the highest ranked of the candidates who did not get elected to Parliament and who is available to serve.

Mr Leawere was the highest ranked SODELPA candidate who was not a member of Parliament

The Attorney-General alleges that the Commission should not have awarded the seat to Mr Leawere because he was a public officer by virtue of being employed by a trade union when the vacancy arose, and when he advised the Electoral Commission that he was available to take the seat.

Bainimarama to Barr: *"So, you are back from China - did you f*** off?"*

8 Comments

3Things

2/6/2015 11:36:35 am

1. Seems like the 'vatusona saga' is getting spicier.

2. Whatta Italian job with resignation and appointment of Luveni as the Speaker...and appointment of Tuitubau as a MP. Is this the first time we are hearing of this? Did the opposition question this dicey sec 64 of the FRAUD 2013 Constitution??

3. And since the matter of Leawere's appointment is a Constitutional one under sec.64 of the FRAUD 2013 Constitution - Apted may do very well to question the very 'illegitimacy' / validity of the FRAUD 2013 Constitution itself and plainly point out to the Court the 'crisis of legitimacy' suffered by the FRAUD 2013 Constitution - and which was as a matter of fact composed and imposed on the People of Fiji - by a known Intellectual Property Thief (Khaiyum). The bus cartoon (above) can be tendered as an exhibit to the Court.

Shannon

2/6/2015 02:11:18 pm

Vatusonagate is definitely becoming more interesting.

Perhaps the governments plan to weaken the opposition involves expelling/suspending as many as possible, then padding their bills through.

Johnny

2/6/2015 03:19:11 pm

Shannon,

From what I have seen so far, the opposition is a toothless whale anyway. Whatever dignity was left has gone down the drain with the filthy low grade comment by Naiqama. The opposition has chosen boycott as a discontent showing mechanism. The very same mechanism that they were so critical of when Chaudhary and FLP used to utilise while in opposition. NFP at the time said that boycott won't resolve issues. Wonder what has changed now? It seems that dignity and modesty of a women is no longer important in the eyes of our honorouble MP's and some blind parrot supporters.

Rustam

2/6/2015 03:28:07 pm

Ratu’s expulsion from the Parliament should be presented as a motion for a ‘Vatusona Code of Conduct Bill’ and whereby all honorable members of our esteemed House of Chors should diligently debate and collectively set acceptable boundaries on their behavior in Parliament and also on the issue of Ratu’s Constitutional rights to remain in the Parliament to represent and continue to represent the express mandate of all his people in the Fiji-wide constituency.

It is not only Ratu who is expelled from ‘representative democracy’ but also actively excluded are the voices of all those thousands who voted for Ratu and whom Ratu represents in the Parliament.

Ratu braved up for his (mis) deed, made and published a public apology. That should suffice in a new Parliament, whose members’ code of conduct is yet evolving, with small incidences like the Vatusona-gate. That is why the ‘Vatusona Bill’ is so important, so as to urgently develop the ‘code of conduct’ of Parliamentarians, so they don’t go around saying ‘vatusona’, especially to the Speaker of our esteemed House of Chors.

Ramifications here are larger than the judge/jury slapstick of the comic, myopic Khaiyum.

What-If ?

3/6/2015 01:19:07 am

The vatusona-gate brings to mind the question - what if - these Sodelpa lot would have been in the lead...in the Governmment and Ratu Naiqama their spokesperson ??

The Golden Rock

3/6/2015 01:26:51 am

Ratu only meant to pay the Hon. Speaker a complement by saying 'vatusona' which in new Fiji of equal citizenry should mean ; 'vatu' (rock /stone in Fijian) and added to it 'sona' (which is Gold in Hindhi). So the Speaker is the 'golden rock'.

Or Ratu should have just said 'sonalevu' to the Speaker - meaning lots of gold. What's the big deal???

7 SEAS

5/6/2015 01:46:50 am

heheheheh, that's really funny @ The Golden Rock, perhaps 'sonalevu' can also be directed to PM with the Hindi meaning

Bahuki

4/6/2015 12:37:15 am

Makes me wonder how long the dignity of the opposition has been ruined from this supposed "Vatusona" scandal

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