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Narain, Sathi, Legislative Council Member (1959–1963) Patel, A. D., Legislative Council Member (1944–1950, 1963–1969) Prasad, Ayodhya, Legislative Council Member (1953–1959); a founding member of the Alliance Party; Rao, James Ramchandar, one of the first three Indo-Fijian members elected to the Legislative Council (1929)
With Fiji's Independence from the United Kingdom scheduled for 1970, there was widespread debate over the issue of political representation in the country's new parliament, and the number of seats reserved for each of Fiji's ethnic communities, Rokotuivuna and other YWCA members took part in a 1965 forum to hear women's views on the future constitution and electoral system.
There have been four Fijian coups d'état in the past forty years: 1987 Fijian coups d'état (two) 2000 Fijian coup d'état; ... Fiji coup. 1 language ...
Boyer, Derek, born in Lautoka, Fiji; acted in DOA: Dead or Alive released in 2006; Butler, Trevor, winner of Big Brother Australia 2004; Curuenavuli, Paulini, Australian-based singer and former member of the band Young Divas; born in Suva, Fiji; Khan, Cassius, Canada, Indian classical musician; born in Lautoka
The Fijian coups d'état of 1987 resulted in the overthrow of the elected government of Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, the deposition of Elizabeth II as Queen of Fiji, and in the declaration of a republic. The first coup d'état, in which Bavadra was deposed, took place on 14 May 1987; a second coup d'état on 25 September ended the ...
The 2000 Fijian coup d'état was a civilian coup d'état by an armed group of indigenous Fijian nationalists supported by the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit, against the elected government of Indo-Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, on 19 May 2000.
Draunidalo is the daughter of former Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Adi Kuini Speed, a Paramount Chief from Nadroga-Navosa, who was deposed in the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, and her first husband, Savenaca Draunidalo, who served in the cabinet of Laisenia Qarase, which was deposed in the 2006 Fijian coup d'état.
The Fijian coup d'état of December 2006 was a coup d'état in Fiji carried out by Commodore Frank Bainimarama against Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and President Josefa Iloilo. It was the culmination of a political crisis that had begun the previous year when the Qarase government introduced three bills to the Fijian Parliament .