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Issue No: 829; 7 June 2001
The regime's Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase has revealed that his political party was making a deal with the National Federation Party. Qarase told a press conference yesterday that his party had met the NFP three times over the past few weeks and that the talks were very fruitful. This site had earlier stated that the NFP was making a deal with Qarase. The NFP had aggressively rejected this statement saying that it came from people who were insane (see http://www.pcgov.org.fj/hot_press/no629.htm; http://www.pcgov.org.fj/hot_press/no654.htm ). Both, Qarase's party and the NFP are funded by a group of ethnic Indian businessmen. The same group had allegedly financed the terrorists last year. It is believed that this same group, led by a very prominent ethnic Indian businessmen involved in the food industry, is brokering the deal for Qarase to get ethnic Indian political support through the NFP. The same group of businessmen had also funded a few politicians in the People's Coalition Government to break away from the People's Coalition Government during its term in office. The same group had again funded some politicians in the Fiji Labour Party to break away and form another political party. The politicians, led by Tupeni Baba, have now formed the United Labour Party. 7 people turned up at its launching two weeks ago. Qarase has also stated that his party will also be meeting the breakaway politicians now under United Labour Party. |
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