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Issue No: 467; 1 April 2001
The Citizens' Constitutional Forum should be supported, not criticised, for its efforts to keep Fiji within a legal framework, democracy supporters have said. The Movement for Democracy in Fiji yesterday backed the CCF's attempt to test the President's appointment of a so-called caretaker government in court. The MDF questioned the actions of the Minister for Information, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, who said the CCF's actions would create instability and were "unrealistic, reckless and legalistic". "Ratu Inoke and the gunmen in parliament created instability and were reckless about the future of the country," MDF President Mr Raymond Croxon QC said. "Ratu Inoke and his cohorts acted illegally - as the High Court and the Appeal Court noted - in appointing themselves to positions of power after the government was illegally taken over." "It would be good now for the courts to have another chance to test the flimsy veneer of legality that the illegal interim government seems to have tried to give themselves," Mr Croxon said. "Surely there should be nothing for Ratu Inoke and his group to worry about. If they are acting legally their actions and position will be affirmed. "If they are acting illegally, they will surely obey the law and urge everyone else, publicly and behind scenes, to obey the law. "It is unlikely that people will ignore influential people like Ratu Inoke urging them to abide by the court's decision," Mr Croxon said. |
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