LOST TO RIGGING? The Elections Office starts destruction process of SENSITIVE materials from the 2014 general election

LOST TO RIGGING? The Elections Office starts destruction process of SENSITIVE materials from the 2014 general election - under Police watch?

3/2/2016

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TWISTED NATION'S ARM WITH FATHER DAVID ARMS: Aiyaz Khaiyum and David Arms imposed D'Hondt Electoral System instead of the Sainte-Laguë Divisor Rule. If the latter had been adopted, FijiFirst's seats would have shrunk to 24 seats, SODELPA would have got 17 seats, and smaller parties like PDP, FLP would probably have got 2 seats each. NFP would have got 4 seats and there would have been one independent. The D'Hondt gave larger parties an advantage and allowed FijiFirst absolute majority - and also the opportunity to rig the election! By removing by-election provision Khaiyum can maintain majority until 2018!

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Samjha

4/2/2016 01:15:40 am

A dictatorship held a " democratic" election. That says it all. After coming to power through an unlawful military takeover and entrenching themselves with unfettered powers - to manipulate the electoral system and the constitution and everything else, including the media - the eight year Bainimarama- Khaiyum dictatorship held a " democratic" election. It was a fraud on the people of Fiji designed to con the international community into believing " Fiji returns to democracy".
What has actually happened under the manipulated electoral system is that the dictatorship acquired a democratic garb and with it the international respectability and acceptance it wanted.
This is the reality the people of Fiji have to live with. The people know it, the Opposition know it, the media know it, the intellectuals know it.

Thinker

4/2/2016 03:22:34 am

Correctly said Fijileaks. I remember that Independent Candidate Roshika Deo managed to get 2000 votes.

She would have made a GOOD Minister of Women as Rosy Akbar failed to received even 1000.

And yes, Roshika would have done her own speach writing and would have much effectively delvered the same.

Bahuki

4/2/2016 04:03:47 am

And that is why I'll forever lose hope in government because some selfish people just can't get their act together.

Unless there's a genuine reason to think twice of course.

Chiku

4/2/2016 04:09:57 am

Just because someone has Father before his name it does not mean he is infallible . A lot of church fathers got it wrong when they failed to condemn Hitler and his Nazi thugs. A lot of church fathers got it wrong when they defended the church when child sexual abuse by Padres were exposed. Father David Arms got it wrong when he threw his support behind the Bainimarama regime's plan to design a new electoral system to foist on the people of Fiji with the aim of using it to hang onto power. This is not to say Father Arms is not a good man, a decent man. He is. But good man with good intentions can get things wrong. Father Arms overrated his ability to shape a utopian Fiji society with his and Khaiyum's electoral system.
It merely allowed the Bainimarama dictatorship to become " a democratically elected government" by going through the motions of a dubious election.
The ground realities remain basically unchanged no matter how much Father Arms and other regime apologists claim otherwise.

Why the rush link

4/2/2016 06:05:22 am

The rush to shred ballot papers leave a lot of questions unanswered. Why is there a rush to get rid of all evidences of the rigged election,
? Are they afraid someone will learn of their wrong doings? Legally they were supposed to be archived for 2 years. Like every thing done by the dictators, this as another illegal move. Too scared, can't sleep at night, ghosts haunting them!

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4/2/2016 08:54:25 am

And the verdict has arrived! NFP MP's will not be eligible for Parliamentary Sittings while suspended. This is totally opposed to what their abhorrent political party decree states. I wonder who gives them such incompetent legal advice. Oh well, when the dictator and his lackeys run the Courts, what's there to worry? Just makes me wonder, why isn't there a revolt yet? When will the Fijians wake up?

http://fijisun.com.fj/2016/02/04/suspended-nfp-mps-can-not-participate-in-parliament-speaker/

Elector

4/2/2016 09:41:22 am

The shredding of ballot papers without a mourn by SODELPA and NFP who have claimed rigging? Was the rigging claim credible? If they are serious, then they should move immediately to stop shredding of ballot papers.

kaise

4/2/2016 09:42:14 am

oh poor NFP - means Not For Parliament
feel sorry for them

Chiku

4/2/2016 07:58:55 pm

Feel sorry for what has become of a country that was once described by the Pope as the way the world should be.
Cry, My Beloved Country which has fallen under Thug Rule.

Fiji First Party

4/2/2016 10:22:03 pm

Ready and included for shredding (if not already shredded) the official certificate of registration of the original Fiji First Party.

Long Live the Chors!!! - Bainimarama, Aiyaz and Saneem.

Samjha

4/2/2016 11:51:12 pm

The Chors - the thug rulers - may live long but they will NOT be in power forever . That is a lesson taught by history to all Chors - big and small. Look at where some of Chors from previous coups are today, if they are not in their graves...

Member First Fiji First party

8/2/2016 12:17:59 am

Victor still has the govt. gazette of the original Fiji First party. These hoodlums cannot shred that!

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LOST TO RIGGING? The Elections Office starts destruction process of SENSITIVE materials from the 2014 general election - under Police watch?

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