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Tailevu South Lomaiviti (Open Constituency, Fiji)
Tailevu South Lomaiviti Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. It comprised the Lomaiviti Archipelago (except Ovalau) and the southern part of Tailevu Province, on the main island of Viti Levu. The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate. Election results In the following tables, the ''primary vote'' refers to first-preference votes cast. The ''final vote'' refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established for that purpose, determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. District representatives may be elected by a first-past-the-post system, a proportional representative system, or another voting method. They may be selected by a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. Terminology The names for electoral districts vary across countries and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral System Of Fiji
Historical overview Fiji's electoral system is the result of complex negotiations, compromises, and experiments conducted over the years leading up to and following independence from British colonial rule in 1970. A number of devices have been tried at various times to accommodate the reality that the primary faultline in Fijian politics is not ideological, but ethnic. The competing political interests of the indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians defined the political landscape for a generation. There are also small communities of Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities. In colonial times, the British authorities established a legislative council with mostly advisory powers, which were gradually extended. European males were enfranchised in 1904 an allocated 7 elective seats in the Legislative Council. Fijians were represented by 2 chiefs chosen by the colonial Governor from a list of 6 nominees submitted by the Great Council of Chiefs. There was initially no represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (Fiji)
The Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (NVTLP) was a Fijian political party which championed Fijian ethnic nationalism. It was led by Iliesa Duvuloco, while Viliame Savu served as the party's president. Founding and ideology The party was founded in the late 1990s by a merger of Sakeasi Butadroka's Fijian Nationalist Party and Iliesa Duvuloco's Vanua Tako Lavo Party. Both leaders strongly opposed the adoption of the present constitution, which they publicly burnt when Parliament passed it. The party campaigned on a platform of ''"Fiji for the Fijians and that their rights at all times should be preserved,"'' as Butadroka put it. In April 2006, party secretary Viliame Savu announced that the NVTLP was dropping its demand for the expulsion of ethnic Indians who were born in Fiji. ''"We no longer share that view now because if you Indian or European born here, you will be still a Fiji citizen,"'' he told the Fiji Sun. The party would continue to fight for indigenous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joji Bakoso
Joji (じょうじ, 丈二, or 譲二, 城二, 譲治 multiple variants) is a Japanese masculine given name. It is also the Japanese pronunciation of the Western name "George" (ジョージ). It commonly refers to: * Jōji, an era in Japanese history * Joji (musician), stage name of musician and former Internet personality George Miller Joji, Jouji or Jōji may also refer to: People with the name * Marampudi Joji (1942–2010), Archbishop of Hyderabad * (born 1943), Japanese manga artist *, pseudonym of Japanese manga storywriter, novelist and screenwriter Shin Kibayashi * Joji Banuve (1940–2009), Fijian politician *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese violinist and conductor *, Japanese film and television director *, Japanese ice hockey player * Jōji Jonokuchi, pseudonym of writer Kiyohiko Azuma *, Japanese author *, Japanese speedskater * Joji Kotobalavu, Fiji civil servant *, Japanese manga artist *, legal scholar, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Alliance (Fiji)
The Christian Democratic Alliance, better known locally by its Fijian name, ''Veitokani ni Lewenivanua Vakarisito'' (VLV), was a Fijian political party that operated in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The party was founded in 1997 when a faction of the then-ruling Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT) broke away, but was not registered until February 1999. Rev. Ratu Josaia Rayawa was appointed President of the party, with Ratu Epeli Ganilau, son of former Fijian President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau and son-in-law of the then-current President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, as interim leader. Other prominent members of the party included Adi Koila Nailatikau (Mara's daughter and Ganilau's sister-in-law), Poseci Bune, Rev. Manasa Lasaro (a former Secretary-General of the Methodist Church, who had advocated banning all commercial and sporting activities on Sundays), and Josefa Vosanibola. In the general election of 1999, the VLV was widely seen as playing a spoiler role. Campai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josua Uluiviti
Josua or Jozua is a male given name and a variation of the Hebrew name Yeshua. Notable people with this name include: * Josua Bühler (1895–1983), Swiss philatelist *Josua de Grave (1643–1712), Dutch draughtsman and painter * Josua Harrsch (1669–1719), German missionary * Josua Hoffalt (born 1984), French ballet dancer * Josua Järvinen (1871–1948), Finnish politician *Josua Koroibulu (born 1982), Fijian rugby league footballer *Josua Heschel Kuttner (–1878), Jewish Orthodox scholar and rabbi *Josua Lindahl (1844–1912), Swedish-American geologist and paleontologist *Josua Maaler (1529–1599), Swiss pastor and lexicographer * Josua Mateinaniu (), Fijian missionary * Josua Mejías (born 1997), Venezuelan footballer *Johann Josua Mosengel (1663–1731), German pipe organ builder * Jozua Naudé (other), several people * Josua Swanepoel (born 1983), South African cricketer *Josua Tuisova (born 1994), Fijian rugby union player *Josua Vakurunabili (born 1992), Fijian r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fijian Association Party
The Fijian Association Party (FAP) is a former political party in Fiji. It played a significant role in Fijian politics throughout the 1990s, but lost all of its seats in the House of Representatives in the parliamentary election of 2001. The FAP was founded in 1994 by Josefata Kamikamica, head of the Native Land Trust Board and a former Minister of Finance. Following the parliamentary election of 1992, Kamikamica and five of his supporters had left the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei of Sitiveni Rabuka and unsuccessfully challenged him for the Prime Ministership, attempting to build a coalition government with the Indo-Fijian opposition. The party won five seats in the general election of 1994, which was called three years early because of political instability. Following Kamikamica's death from cancer in 1996, ''Ratu'' Finau Mara (the son of then-President ''Ratu Sir'' Kamisese Mara) took over the leadership. In 1998, he was replaced by ''Adi'' Kuini Speed, the widow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuela Matawalu
Samuela is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Samuela Anise (born 1986), a Japanese rugby union footballer * Samuela Bola (born 1983), a Fijian rugby union footballer * Samuela Davetawalu, a Fijian rugby league footballer *Samuela Drudru (born 1989), a Fijian association (soccer) footballer * Samuela Leuii (born 1972), a Samoan boxer * Samuela Kautoga (born 1987), a Fijian association (soccer) footballer *Samuela Marayawa, a Fijian rugby league footballer * Samuela Matakibau, a Fijian former police officer * Samuela Nabenia (born 1995), a Fijian association (soccer) footballer * Samuela Tupou (born 1955), a Fijian swimmer * Samuela Tuikiligana (born 1958), a Fijian international lawn bowler * Samuela Valelala, a Fijian rugby league footballer * Samuela Vula (born 1984), a Fijian association (soccer) footballer * Samuela Vunisa (born 1988), an Italian rugby union footballer * Samuela Vunivalu (born circa 1957), a Fijian politician * Samuela Yavala (born 1947), a Fijia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soqosoqo Ni Vakavulewa Ni Taukei
The Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT), occasionally known in English as Fijian Political Party, was a party which dominated the politics of Fiji in the 1990s and was the mainstay of coalition governments from 1992 to 1999. Origins The party was founded in 1990 as the political vehicle of the Great Council of Chiefs (GCC), with the declared goal of uniting all indigenous Fijians. A new constitution promulgated in 1990, following two military coups in 1987, abolished the "national" parliamentary seats elected by universal suffrage (which had comprised almost half the House of Representatives); all members henceforth were to be elected by enrolled voters on "communal" electoral rolls that were limited to specific ethnic communities, each of which had an allocated number of seats in the House (37 indigenous Fijians, 27 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman and 5 General Electors (Europeans, Chinese, Banaban Islanders and other minorities). The end to multiracial voting resulted in a trend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epenisa Cakobau
Ratu Epenisa Seru Cakobau (pronounced ) is a Fijian chief. Cakobau is a senior member of the '' Tui Kaba'' clan and a high chief on the island of Bau. The son of the late Ratu Sir George Cakobau (1912–1989), the former 11th Vunivalu of Bau (Paramount Chief of Kubuna (1957–1989) and Governor-General of Fiji (1983-1983), he is also a great-great grandson of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the warlord who established the first unified Fijian Kingdom in 1871 and ceded it to the United Kingdom in 1874. Cakobau has been involved in politics; he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 as a candidate of the ''Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei'' (SVT), representing the Open constituencies, open constituency of Tailevu South Lomaiviti (Open Constituency, Fiji), Tailevu South Lomaiviti, and when the Conservative Alliance-Matanitu Vanua, Conservative Alliance, a Nationalism, nationalistic List of political parties in Fiji, political party was founded in 2001, Cakobau was chos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratu
''Ratu'' () is an Austronesian title used by male Fijians of chiefly rank. An equivalent title, ''adi'' (pronounced ), is used by females of chiefly rank. In the Malay language, the title ''ratu'' is also the traditional honorific title to refer to the ruling king or queen in Javanese culture (though it has since been used in modern contexts to refer to queen regnants of any nation, e.g. "Ratu Elizabeth II"). Thus in Java, a royal palace is called "''keraton''", constructed from the circumfix ''ke- -an'' and ''Ratu'', to describe the residence of the ratu. Etymology ''Ra'' is a prefix in many titles (''ramasi, ramalo, rasau, ravunisa, ratu''), and ''tu'' means simply "chief". The formal use of "ratu" as a title in a name (as in "Sir" in British tradition) was not introduced until after the cession of 1874. Until then, a chief would be known only by his birth name and his area-specific traditional title. Regional variations include ''ro'' in Rewa and parts of Naitasiri and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiji Labour Party
The Fiji Labour Party (FLP; fj, Ilawalawa Cakacaka ni Viti), also known as Fiji Labour, is a political party in Fiji. Most of its support is from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoci Bavadra. The party has been elected to power twice, with Timoci Bavadra and Mahendra Chaudhry becoming prime minister in 1987 and 1999 respectively. On both occasions, the resulting government was rapidly overthrown by a coup. Formation of the Fiji Labour Party By 1985, the people of Fiji were yearning for a third force in Fiji politics, as the opposition National Federation Party (NFP) was again falling apart and the right-wing policies of the ruling Alliance Party had alienated it from the ordinary people. Dissatisfaction with Government policies had begun soon after the 1982 elections with a prolonged teachers' strike and a hunger strike by young graduates, who were longer guaranteed employment. In indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
