Cooperate/Be part of charter

The Interim Prime Minister has stressed that he does not want the race based voting system or the communal voting to continue in Fiji.

Commodore Frank Bainimarama said the People's Charter process is currently underway and the National Council for Building a Better Fiji is mindful of the fact that the current electoral system is based along racial lines.

Bainimarama said if people want the elections to go ahead then they need to cooperate and be part of the Charter process which will also end the coup culture in Fiji.

He said any politician who does not want to participate in the Charter process, his advice to them is to go back to the village.

The Interim PM said some Fijian politicians are creating racial hatred so that they can keep winning their electoral seats and remain in power. He said these people keep bringing up the issue that Indians should be taken out of Fiji.

Bainimarama said everyone should realize that if Indians and other races leave Fiji, the indigenous Fijians will be left with their old traditional clothes and canoes. Commodore Bainimarama believes that no Christian or indigenous Fijian was born to hate other races. He said no one was taught in Sunday school or school that they should hate the Indians. He said it’s some Fijian politicians, chiefs and church leaders who develop this way of thinking.

The Interim Prime Minister said indigenous Fijians should look at their own welfare rather than thinking that another Fiji citizen of another race will take their land and property.