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Issue No: 725; 2 May 2001
The Great Council of Chiefs has rejected the moves by some chiefs to accept the demands of terrorist George Speight for the abrogation of the 1997 Constitution. The media reports that the chiefs did not support the proposal by one chief that the constitution be abrogated. The chiefs decided that the GCC should set high moral standards for ethnic Fijians. The chiefs also refused to budge to pressure that the provinces condemn the Citizen's Constitutional Forum for taking up a legal challenge of the President's decision to reappoint Qarase as Prime Minister. The media reports that the chiefs heeded legal advice to let the court decide on this. Meanwhile, it is reported that a new political party formed by politicians involved with the terrorists has nominated the terrorists' leader George Speight as their President. It is understood that the party will align itself with other newly formed province based parties which support ethnic Fijian supremacy. The group is actively trying to get Laisenia Qarase into their fold. |
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