Fiji Democratic Party

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Politics - Fiji This article is part of the series: Politics of Fiji

Constitution of Fiji Main article - Chapters :: Executive government President - Vice-President Prime Minister - Cabinet Attorney-General Leader of the Opposition Legislative government Parliament Senate House of Representatives Speaker Judicial government Main article Magistrates Courts High Court Court of Appeal Supreme Court Chief Justice Chief Magistrate Appeal Court President Local government Main article Municipal elections 2002 - 2005 Other political institutions Great Council of Chiefs Chairman, G.C.C. Political parties Historical institutions Governor Governor-General Chief Minister Legislative Council Electoral system Main article Voting system Open constituencies Communal constituencies National constituencies Parliamentary elections Main article 1966 - 1972 March 1977 - September 1977 1982 - 1987 - 1992 1994 - 1999 - 2001 2006 Presidential elections Main article 1992 - 1994 - 1999 2000 - 2001 - 2006 Foreign affairs Main article Diplomatic relations of Fiji The Fiji Democratic Party is a former political party in Fiji, which operated between June 2002 and April 2005. It was founded by Filipe Bole, a former Cabinet Minister, as a merger of the Fijian Political Party (which had dominated the government in the 1990s), the Fijian Association Party, the Christian Democratic Alliance, and the New Labour Unity Party. All but the last of these had been eliminated from Parliament in the parliamentary election of 2001. The party aimed to secure a niche in the middle ground of Fijian politics, offering a multiracial alternative to the United Fiji Party/Conservative Alliance coalition of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase (supported almost exclusively by indigenous Fijians) on the one hand, and the Fiji Labour Party of former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry (supported mostly by Indo-Fijians) on the other. Among its policies was a proposal to abolish race-based voting and to introduce universal suffrage for all electorates (at present, 46 of the 71 seats in the House of Representatives represent ethnic communities and are elected from closed electoral rolls). In April 2005, the FDP announced its own dissolution and merger with the newly-formed National Alliance Party of Fiji, founded by Ratu Epeli Ganilau, a chief whose father and father-in-law both served as President of Fiji. Filipe Bole has been appointed a spokesman for the new party. Political Parties in Fiji Represented in the House of Representatives (Fiji)>House of Representatives: Conservative Alliance (CAMV) | Fiji Labour Party (FLP) | New Labour Unity Party (NLUP) | Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL) | United Peoples Party (UPP) Represented on Local government of Fiji>municipal councils: Lighthouse | National Federation Party (NFP) | Ratepayers' Associations | Savusavu Ratepayers and Citizens | Sunrise Party | Tavua Ratepayers, Landowners, and Tenants Association Minor parties: Dodonu ni Taukei | Fijian Association Party (FAP) | Fijian Political Party (SVT) | General Voters Party (GVP) | Girmit Heritage Party | Justice and Freedom Party | Lio on Famor Rotuman Party | National Alliance Party (NAP) | Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (NVTLP) | New Nationalist Party (NNP)| People's National Party (PNP) | Party of the Truth (POTT) | Parliamentary Organization for Indigenous Fijians (POIF) | Social Liberal Multicultural Party (SLMP) | Sugar City Ratepayers Alliance Historical parties: Alliance Party | All Nationals Congress (ANC) | Christian Democratic Alliance (VLV) | Coalition of Independent Nationals (COIN) | Fiji Democratic Party (FDP) | Fijian Nationalist Party (FNP) | Party of National Unity (PANU) | Protector of Fiji (BKV) | Western United Front | Vanua Tako Lavo Party (VTLP) Coalitions: Grand Coalition (2006) | People's Coalition (1999)   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: