Fijileaks
  • Home
  • Archive Home
  • In-depth Analysis
    • BOI Report into George Speight and others beatings
  • Documents
  • Opinion
  • CRC Submissions
  • Features
  • Archive

Khaiyum's Electoral Decree exposes another gaping hole: Does this bumbling lawyer expect that public officers who fought & lost election must not return to their old jobs; but just wait for seat to become vacant?

2/6/2015

9 Comments

 

"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." Aiyaz Khaiyum's 2013 Constitution

Fijileaks: Tyrant's Own Wording - "Who is Available to Serve" - means one and only one thing: Was Leawere Available to Serve? YES! And he resigned as acting general secretary of FTA to serve as a Sodelpa MP!

Is Education Minister Mahendra Reddy (an adversary of Leawere) behind the whole charade to ensure that Leawere is not sitting in Parliament?

PictureSODELPA MP Mikaele Leawere’s lawyer Jon Apted
Judge dismisses Apted’s strike out application re Leawere!

The strike out application filed by SODELPA MP Mikaele Leawere’s lawyer Jon Apted against the Attorney General’s petition has been dismissed by the Suva High Court Judge Justice David Alfred.


Judge Alfred also ruled that Leawere has to pay costs of $1,000 to the Office of the Attorney General.

Meanwhile Suva lawyer Devinesh Sharma who is representing the AG’s office said in the case late yesterday that Leawere is only elected to parliament in the 2014 general election.

The Attorney General’s petition seeks a determination that the Electoral Commission erred in law in awarding a vacant parliamentary seat to Leawere who was the SODELPA candidate with the highest number of votes in the September 2014 General Election after SODELPA MP Ratu Viliame Tagivetaua’s death on March 5th this year.

The commission awarded the seat to Leawere on May 5th.

When the vacancy arose Leawere was the Acting General Secretary of the Fijian Teachers Association making him a public officer.

According to the constitution, no public officer is eligible to take up a parliamentary seat.

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.

Submissions will continue to be heard by the High Court today on whether Leawere should continue to occupy the parliamentary seat. Source: Fijivillage News

Picture
Picture
Picture
HE has been dancing around the law - delayed court appearance so he could be elected FFP MP, and now Cabinet Minister
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Fijileaks: So, it is acceptable that the Godfather of Double Standards can snatch back his old A-G job but it is not acceptable for Leawere to enter Parliament just because after losing the election he had returned to FTA as acting general secretary? There is something really ROTTEN in Khaiyum's Kingdom - and who to blame - COWARD NATIVE FIJIANS!


9 Comments
Questions
2/6/2015 04:38:13 pm

What has Khaiyum against the trade unionist ???

And more importantly, why can't the Unionist fix Khaiyum up good and proper???

Reply
Fact
2/6/2015 04:41:35 pm

The 2013 Constitution is a FRAUD on our nation.

Reply
maro pito
2/6/2015 05:07:08 pm

Khaiyum should be the general secretary for ISIS who has constitution to kill innocent people. and recruit killers.

Reply
Naitini
2/6/2015 11:24:25 pm

He telling us he is full of trickery yet no one is doing anything.
And Justice System sucks.

Reply
Maro Pito
2/6/2015 08:44:14 pm

Khaiyum has recruited the killer Ashneel Sudhakar who has a mass destruction weapon called mortein to kill the oposition

Reply
Rotten AG and Sewer Rat Unionists
2/6/2015 11:52:48 pm

Was it not over the same issue of political disenfranchisement of Trade Unionist that Fiji Government went groveling over to the ILO in Geneva? This is blatant draconian measures against the worker rights in Fiji.

What is surprising is the pussy-footing stance and the utter spinelessness of our current Trade Unionist - All of them should hang themselves in shame.

Remember the days of Strong Unionist like James Anthony, Tora, Madhuvan and many many others.

The present lot - Felix, Agni, Rajeshwar look like sewer rats, vatusonas who sold their souls to the regime one time or the other.

Reply
The 1997 Constitution Lives...
3/6/2015 12:20:12 am

It is not sad, at all, to see Ghai shedding crocodile tears over his 'waste of time' recommendations.

Didn't the People of Fiji REPEATEDLY told Ghai that we did not need another Constitution and that the 1997 Constitution of Fiji is a living document.

But no Ghai was greedy for money (that is all) and he sold the People of Fiji down the tube.

Reply
maro pito
3/6/2015 03:28:02 am

opposition should get help from Ashneel Shudakar to Mortein khaiyum banimarama and this would be end of this chor baiman vatusona party.

Reply
Bahuki
3/6/2015 10:45:23 pm

Its no surprise that the previous draft constitution had all the concerns that the public itself put into, but then AK-47 had other ideas and scratched it by putting out a new one based solely on his own interests as well as Frankie (although Frankie himself is more of a puppet to Khaiyum).

But the Ghai draft at least was decent, if the original 1997 constitution was to be scraped for genuine reasons.

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    editor@fijileaks.com

    ARCHIVES

    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    Picture
    Picture