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Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

. Prior to the

2006 Fijian coup d'état The Fijian coup d'état of December 2006 was a coup d'état carried out by Commodore Frank Bainimarama, Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, against the government of President Josefa Iloilo. Iloilo was removed as president, but ...

Fiji had a

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system, with numerous parties in which no one party had a chance of gaining power alone, forcing parties to work with each other to form

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s. In January 2013 the military regime promulgated new regulations governing the registration of political parties. Parties are required to have 5,000 financial members, obey a code of conduct, and be named in the English language. The existing 16 registered parties were required to re-register under the new rules, but only two – the

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 in ...

and the

National Federation Party The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A. D. Patel, A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party (Fiji, 1960s), National Democratic Party. Though it claimed to ...

– did so. The rest were dissolved on 15 February 2013 and their assets forfeited to the government.

Current parties

Registered parties

Historical parties

Political parties that have played a pivotal role in the past, but are now defunct. * All Nationals Congress – formerly a multiracial party. Split, with some joining the Fijian Association Party (FAP), and others the United General Party, which later became the United Peoples Party. * Alliance Party – the former ruling party (1967-1987); founded by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. On 18 January 2005, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, the past

Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs The Great Council of Chiefs ''(Bose Levu Vakaturaga'' in Fijian) was a formal assembly of Fiji's senior hereditary chiefs (including Sitiveni Rabuka who led the 1987 Fijian coups d'état), along with some representatives of the national gove ...

, formally registered the National Alliance Party of Fiji as the claimed successor to the defunct party. *

Bei Kai Viti The Bai Kei Viti (BKV, sometimes known in English as ''Protector of Fiji'', or ''Fortress for the People of Fiji''), was a political party in Fiji. The party was formed by residents and some chiefs of Ba Province to contest the 1999 elections, ...

(''Protector of Fiji'' or BKV) – ethnic Fijian party founded in 1999 by Ratu

Tevita Momoedonu Ratu Tevita Momoedonu (13 January 1946 – 26 November 2020) was a Fijian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Fiji twice – each time extremely briefly. Both appointments were to get around constitutional technicalities; hi ...

; later merged with PANU to form People's National Party (PNP) * Christian Democratic Alliance, more commonly known by the Fijian acronym ''VLV'' (''Veitokoni ni Lewenivanua VaKarisito'') – founded in 1999, this party won 19 per cent of the vote and 3 seats in the 1999 election. It was weakened in 2001 when the leader, Poseci Bune, defected to join the Fiji Labour Party. In 2005, this party merged into the

National Alliance Party of Fiji The National Alliance Party of Fiji (NAPF) was a Fijian political party. It was formally registered on 18 January 2005 by Ratu Epeli Ganilau, as the claimed successor to the defunct Alliance Party, which ruled Fiji from 1967 to 1987 under the ...

. * Coalition of Independent Nationals – a grouping of six candidates styling themselves as independents, in the 1999

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. Led by Prince Vyas Muni Lakshman. * Conservative Alliance (CAMV), a nationalistic party that broke away from the Fijian Political Party (SVT) (q.v.) in 2001; led by

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 re ...

Naiqama Lalabalavu Ratu Naiqama Tawake Lalabalavu (born 23 December 1953) is a Fijian Paramount Chief and the current speaker of the parliament. He had served as the leader of the opposition. Tui Cakau In 1999, Lalabalavu succeeded his late father, Ratu Glan ...

, its key figures included

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George Speight George Speight (born 1957) is a Fijian businessman and politician who was the leader of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, in which he and rebel soldiers from Fiji's Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit seized the Fijian Parliament and held Prime Ministe ...

. The party merged into the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua in March 2006, but was revived in 2008. * Dodonu ni Taukei (DNT) – ethnic Fijian party led by Dr Fereti S. Dewa. *

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) – founded by Josefata Kamikamica; significant in the 1990s but wiped out in 2001. Most members merged in June 2002 into the new

Fiji Democratic Party The Fiji Democratic Party was a political party in Fiji. It was active between June 2002 and April 2005. It was founded by Filipe Bole, a former Cabinet Minister, as a merger of the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (which had dominated the go ...

; a rump continued under the leadership of Ratu Inoke Seru. *

– founded in June 2002 by

Filipe Bole Filipe Nagera Bole CBE, CF (23 August 1936 – 19 June 2019) was a Fijian politician who hailed from the village of Mualevu on the island of Vanua Balavu in the Lau Group. He had a reputation as one of Fiji's few politicians untainted by scan ...

as a merger of the Fijian Association Party, the Christian Democratic Alliance, the New Labour Unity Party, and most members of the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei. Dissolved in April 2005 and merged into the new National Alliance Party of Fiji * Fijian Nationalist Party – a hardline

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party advocating indigenous Fijian supremacy, founded by Sakeasi Butadroka in 1975. Merged with the Vanua Tako Lavo Party in 1999 to form the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party *

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(GVP), the rump of a once-significant party that mostly merged into what is now the United Peoples Party in the late 1990s. Led by Dan Johns. *

Girmit Heritage Party ''Girmit'' is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language film written and directed by Ravi Basrur. The film is also being dubbed into English with the same title, into Tamil and Malayalam as ''Podi Mass'', and into Hindi and Telugu as ''Pakka Mass'' star ...

(GHP), a small Indo-Fijian party led by

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. *

Green Party of Fiji The Green Party of Fiji was a political party in Fiji. The party was formed in November 2008 by former interim regime Cabinet Minister Bernadette Ganilau. Like other green parties, the party followed principles of "ecological wisdom Ecosophy o ...

– dissolved 2013 *

Lio 'On Famör Rotuma Party Lio 'On Famör Rotuma or ''LFR'' (meaning ''"Voice of the Rotuman People"'' in Rotuman) was a political party in Fiji. It sought to represent the interests of the Rotuman people in their main representative constituency, the Rotuman Communal Co ...

(LFR), a party representing Rotuman Islanders, led by Sakumanu Pene *

Justice and Freedom Party The Justice and Freedom Party (JFP) was a minor political party in Fiji. It was formed in 2000 to promote the interests of the Indo-Fijian community, and unsuccessfully contested the 2001 and 2006 elections. It was dissolved in 2013. In the 200 ...

(AIM): led by

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, dissolved 2013 *

(NAPF): registered on 18 January 2005 by ''Ratu'' Epeli Ganilau as the successor to the defunct Alliance Party; dissolved 2013 *

National Youth Party National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

(2005–2013) *

Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party 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 ...

(NVTLP), led by

Iliesa Duvuloco Iliesa Duvuloco (19481September 2017) was a real estate businessman and a former Fijian politician and leader of the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party. He was involved in the 2000 coup d'état and jailed for 18 months. Duvuloco formed the Nat ...

, dissolved 2013 *

New Labour Unity Party The New Labour Unity Party was a Fijian political party, which broke away from the Fiji Labour Party in May 2001. It was founded by Tupeni Baba, a former Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Party stalwart, who had become dissatisfied with Mahendr ...

(founded in 2001 by

Tupeni Baba Tupeni Lebaivalu Baba is a Fijian academic and politician, who founded the now-defunct New Labour Unity Party. Most members of this party later merged with several other centrist parties to form the Fiji Democratic Party (now part of the Natio ...

; won two seats). *

People's National Party The People's National Party (PNP) is a Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Jamaica, political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by independence campaigner Osmond Theodore Fairclough. It holds 14 of the 63 seats in ...

, predominantly ethnic Fijian; effectively led by

Meli Bogileka Ratu Meli Bogileka is a Fijian politician. He was the Secretary of the People's National Party (PNP) up to its decision to merge into the Party of National Unity (PANU) on 5 March 2006. This merger, an affair complicated by several about-tur ...

; formed from a merger of the Party of National Unity (PANU) – and the

Protector of Fiji The Bai Kei Viti (BKV, sometimes known in English as ''Protector of Fiji'', or ''Fortress for the People of Fiji''), was a political party in Fiji. The party was formed by residents and some chiefs of Ba Province to contest the 1999 elections, ...

(Bai kei Viti, founded by

Ratu Tevita Momoedonu Ratu Tevita Momoedonu (13 January 1946 – 26 November 2020) was a Fijian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Fiji twice – each time extremely briefly. Both appointments were to get around constitutional technicalities; hi ...

). * New Nationalist Party, led by

Saula Telawa Saula Telawa was a Fijians, Fijian nationalism, nationalist politician who served as President of the now-defunct New Nationalist Party (Fiji), New Nationalist Party, which advocated Fijians, indigenous Fijian paramountcy. He also championed the e ...

. A splinter from the NVTLP * One Fiji Party (OFP) * Party of National Unity (PANU) – multiracial party founded in 1998 by Sairusi Gagavoka; now merged into the

(PNP), though it was revived. * Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – a split from the Fiji Labour Party, active from 2013 to 2018. * Social Liberal Multicultural Party, led by Joketani Delai (dissolved 2013) *

Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua The United Fiji Party ( fj, Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua, SDL) was a political party in Fiji. It was founded in 2001 by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as a power base; it absorbed most of the Christian Democratic Alliance and other conser ...

(''United Fiji Party'' or SDL, mainly ethnic Fijian; led the government from 2001 through 2006; dissolved 2013) *

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 ...

(SVT), ethnic Fijian; the governing party from 1992 to 1999, but decimated in 1999 and anihlated in 2001. Partially merged into the Fiji Democratic Party in June 2002. * Sugar City Ratepayers Alliance – a party that exists only in the City of

Lautoka Lautoka () is the second largest Local government in Fiji, city in Fiji. It is on the west coast of the island of Viti Levu, in the Ba Province of the Western Division, Fiji, Western Division. Lying in the heart of Fiji's sugar cane-growing r ...

, where it participates in municipal politics. * United Peoples Party (supported mostly by Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities; dissolved 2013) * Vanua Tako Lavo Party – nationalist party advocating political supremacy for indigenous Fijians, founded by Iliesa Duvuloco. Merged with Fijian Nationalist Party in 1999 to form the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party *

Western United Front Western United Front (WUF) was an ethnically Fijian political party formed prior to the 1982 elections and contested the election in coalition with the National Federation Party (NFP-WUF Coalition). The party was in response to the disenfranchise ...

, political party based in the western part of

Viti Levu Viti Levu (pronounced ) is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji. It is the site of the nation's capital, Suva, and home to a large majority of Fiji's population. Geology Fiji lies in a tectonically complex area between the Australian P ...

, active in the early 1980s.

Coalitions and electoral alliances

* Grand Coalition Initiative Group – a coalition of five predominantly indigenous Fijian parties formed to contest the upcoming

scheduled for mid-2006. Participating parties are: the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua, Conservative Alliance, Fijian Political Party,

, and the People's National Party. * People's Coalition – an electoral alliance consisting of the Fiji Labour Party, the Fijian Association Party, and the Party of National Unity, which won the 1999

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...

. *

NFP–Labour Coalition NFP–Labour Coalition was the coalition of the National Federation Party and Fiji Labour Party under the leadership of Timoci Bavadra, formed in 1987 to contest that year's general election. The coalition won the election with 28 seats in the Hous ...

was the coalition of the

and

under the leadership of

Timoci Bavadra Timoci Uluivuda Bavadra (22 September 1934 – 3 November 1989) was a Fijian medical doctor who founded the Fiji Labour Party and served as the Prime Minister of Fiji for one month in 1987. He was born in Viseisei, Viti Levu, and was medical doc ...

, formed in 1987 to contest that year's

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. The coalition won the election with 28 seats in the

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to the Alliance Party's 24 seats. * NFP-WUF Coalition was a coalition of the

(NFP) led by

Jai Ram Reddy Jai Ram Reddy, CF (12 May 1937 – 29 August 2022) was an Indo-Fijian politician, who had a distinguished career in both the legislative and judicial branches of the Fijian government. In 1998, he received Fiji's highest honour, the Companion ...

and the

(WUF) under the leadership of Ratu Osea Gavidi, formed to fight the 1982 general election against the Alliance Party. The coalition was an attempt by Reddy to broaden the appeal of a future NFP led Government to the ethnic

Fijians Fijians ( fj, iTaukei, lit=Owners (of the land)) are a nation and ethnic group native to Fiji, who speak Fijian and share a common history and culture. Fijians, or ''iTaukei'', are the major indigenous people of the Fiji Islands, and live in ...

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Current parties

Registered parties

Historical parties

Coalitions and electoral alliances

See also

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