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href="/wiki/Next_Fijian_general_election" title="Next Fijian general election"><i>Next</i></a></li></ul></div></dd></dl></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Fiji" title="Local government in Fiji">Local government</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li>Recent <a href="/wiki/Local_elections_in_Fiji" title="Local elections in Fiji">local elections</a> <dl><dd><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/2002_Fijian_local_elections" title="2002 Fijian local elections">2002</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2005_Fijian_local_elections" title="2005 Fijian local elections">2005</a></li></ul></div></dd></dl></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" 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title="Executive Council of Fiji">Executive Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Fiji" title="House of Representatives of Fiji">House of Representatives</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">Constituencies</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Open_constituencies" title="Open constituencies">Open</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Communal_constituencies" title="Communal constituencies">Communal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/National_constituencies" title="National constituencies">National</a></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Fiji" title="Legislative Council of Fiji">Legislative Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Council_of_Chiefs" title="Great Council of Chiefs">Great Council of Chiefs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Great_Council_of_Chiefs" title="Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs">Chairman</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Fiji" title="Senate of Fiji">Senate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice-President_of_Fiji" title="Vice-President of Fiji">Vice-President</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <div class="hlist" style="text-align:center;font-weight:normal;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_political_science#Politics_by_region" title="Outline of political science">Other countries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" 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Fiji"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Politics_of_Fiji" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Politics of Fiji"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a>'s fourth constitution, the <b>2013 Constitution of Fiji</b>, was signed into law by <a href="/wiki/President_of_Fiji" title="President of Fiji">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Ratu" title="Ratu">Ratu</a> <a href="/wiki/Epeli_Nailatikau" title="Epeli Nailatikau">Epeli Nailatikau</a> on 6 September 2013, coming into effect immediately.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the first to eliminate race-based electoral rolls, race-based seat quotas, district-based representation, the unelected <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Fiji" title="Senate of Fiji">upper chamber</a>, and the role of the hereditary <a href="/wiki/Great_Council_of_Chiefs" title="Great Council of Chiefs">Council of Chiefs</a>. It vests sole legislative authority in a <a href="/wiki/Unicameralism" title="Unicameralism">single-chamber</a>, 50-seat, at-large Parliament, to be first convened following <a href="/wiki/2014_Fijian_general_election" title="2014 Fijian general election">general elections in 2014</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also the first ever to grant the right to <a href="/wiki/Dual_citizen" class="mw-redirect" title="Dual citizen">multiple citizenship</a> (in effect since 2009 by decree,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on <a href="/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="2009 Fijian constitutional crisis">abrogation of the 1997 constitution</a>), and lowers the <a href="/wiki/Voting_age" title="Voting age">voting age</a> to 18. </p><p><br /> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Constitution_of_Fiji&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fiji's first constitution, implemented in 1970 at the time of independence from the <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a>, contained negotiated provisions to enshrine the political supremacy of the minority indigenous population.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/1987_Fijian_general_election" title="1987 Fijian general election">an Indo-Fijian dominated government was elected</a> despite these safeguards, the <a href="/wiki/1987_Fijian_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1987 Fijian coups d'état">1987 Fijian coups d'état</a> took place, resulting in even tighter measures in the 1990 constitution. </p><p>Widespread Indo-Fijian dissent, coupled with a <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Fiji" title="Demographics of Fiji">population shift</a> back to an indigenous majority, prompted a more inclusive approach in the <a href="/wiki/1997_Constitution_of_Fiji" title="1997 Constitution of Fiji">1997 constitution</a>. This was followed by the <a href="/wiki/1999_Fijian_general_election" title="1999 Fijian general election">election of the first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister</a>, and the violent, failed <a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">civilian coup of 2000</a>. The 2013 constitution gave <a href="/wiki/Indo-Fijians" title="Indo-Fijians">Indo-Fijians</a> equal status in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rationale">Rationale</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Constitution_of_Fiji&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rationale"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#The_Interim_Military_Government" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">The 2000 coup was ended by military intervention</a>. Fifteen people died.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Power was handed over to a civilian administration, which subsequently won the <a href="/wiki/2001_Fijian_general_election" title="2001 Fijian general election">2001 elections</a> — depending for its majority on elements that had been supportive of the coup — and granted early release to several conspirators who had been imprisoned.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also proposed legislation that would have extended amnesty to those involved (the <a href="/wiki/Military_opposition_to_the_Reconciliation,_Tolerance,_and_Unity_Bill" title="Military opposition to the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill">Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill</a>). </p><p>This angered the head of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">Republic of Fiji Military Forces</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bainimarama" title="Frank Bainimarama">Frank Bainimarama</a>, who <a href="/wiki/Military_opposition_to_the_Reconciliation,_Tolerance,_and_Unity_Bill" title="Military opposition to the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill">spoke out against the government</a>, formally demanded a reversal, withstood an attempt to replace him, and eventually <a href="/wiki/2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2006 Fijian coup d'état">launched his own bloodless coup in December 2006</a>. </p><p>As Prime Minister, Bainimarama declared that the race-based electoral system — which he characterized as insulating the well-connected not only from political consequences but from justice and the law — had to be reformed before new elections were held. After months of international pressure, he announced elections for 2009, but then reversed himself,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> saying that a whole new system (a new census, a new voter's list, and a new constitution) would need to be established to prevent a return to the "coup culture." </p><p>In 2008, the government-appointed <a href="/wiki/National_Council_for_Building_a_Better_Fiji" title="National Council for Building a Better Fiji">National Council for Building a Better Fiji</a> released the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Charter_for_Change,_Peace_and_Progress" title="People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress">People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress</a>, which established guidelines for drafting a new constitution, and in 2012 public hearings began across the country to solicit input from the community.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Constitution_of_Fiji&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012 the military regime appointed a constitutional commission to draft a new constitution as part of a return to democracy.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2012 Tikoitoga ordered all copies of the draft seized<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and demanded the prosecution of commission chair <a href="/wiki/Yash_Ghai" title="Yash Ghai">Yash Ghai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The draft was subsequently discarded and a new, military-drafted constitution imposed. </p><p>Original draft author <a href="/wiki/Yash_Ghai" title="Yash Ghai">Yash Ghai</a> has publicly disagreed with changes in the final document, including the removal of regional representation, maintaining that it favors larger political parties.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to an article published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i> by an uncredited writer in Wellington, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, despite its electoral success, the FijiFirst government is also "despised" by "many" native <a href="/wiki/Fijians" title="Fijians">Fijians</a> for implementing the 2013 Constitution of Fiji which describes all of Fiji's citizens as "Fijians", regardless of their ethnicity, causing "some" indigenes to have fears of "cultural annihilation" and an "Islamic conspiracy to control the country", due to the <a href="/wiki/Aiyaz_Sayed-Khaiyum" title="Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum">Attorney General</a> of Fiji being of Muslim background."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2024 the government of <a href="/wiki/Sitiveni_Rabuka" title="Sitiveni Rabuka">Sitiveni Rabuka</a> announced it would begin a process to amend the constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Constitution_of_Fiji&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Charter_for_Change,_Peace_and_Progress" title="People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress">People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Constitution_of_Fiji" title="1997 Constitution of Fiji">1997 Constitution of Fiji</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Constitution_of_Fiji&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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