SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula has said in parliament this afternoon that he is disappointed that SODELPA lost the elections as he believes that they should have been in government to do a lot of things as he believes that there are so many things that the nation needs.
Nawaikula also stated in parliament that civil servants who had voted for SODELPA will have to wait and suffer for another four years.
Nawaikula also highlighted that after elections he believes that voting is still very much along racial lines.
He also stressed that by convention and tradition, the President’s speech is normally intended to set out the government’s programme for the following year in a very impartial and fair manner however Nawaikula believes that this was not so.
While responding to the President, Jioji Konrote’s opening speech, Naiwaikula says that the President’s speech was like a big brother talking down to his subjects on how to behave and keep in line, somewhat like an animal farm.
He adds that the President in his speech denounced only the 1987 and 2000 coups but not the 2006 coup.
Nawaikula says that he was hoping the President would have been impartial to suggest reconciliation by insisting that the Prime Minister and the Leader of Opposition make public apologies in parliament to the victims who were affected by their actions and to the public at large for the devastation done to this country.
