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Issue No: 719; 1 May 2001
The Qarase regime has again defied a High Court order and convinced the President to reappoint the Constitution Review Committee. All the commissioners, except Fred Achari who resigned and Apenisa Kurisiqila who passed away, were reappointed through Presidential warrants on 10 April and sworn in yesterday. Earlier the High Court had ordered all work relating to the CRC to be put to a stop and the commissioners be stopped payments. According to sources, the re-appointments done in the insistence of the Prime Minister's Office. The terms of reference state that the Commission is to review the 1997 Constitution and provide a report to the President by 31 August. The decision is a clear indication that the regime continues to have no respect for law and order. Earlier it had defied the Fiji Court of Appeal ruling that Qarase regime was illegal, and that the 1997 Constitution was still valid and the Parliament still in place. The Qarase regime was reappointed by the President. Meanwhile, the NGO Coalition for Human Rights has stated that the President Ratu Josefa Iloilo is not fit to appropriately address the problems within the judiciary because of his old age and poor health. |
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