Fiji Labour Party Leader, Mahendra Chaudhry says the Prime Minister should come out clean and state the real reason for deferring the municipal elections, and they have no doubt that more delays are in store for the nation.
Chaudhry says it is the government’s inability to find the $13 million budgeted to conduct the elections.
The FLP Leader also says Rabuka may also be unwilling to test the electoral waters just ahead of the general elections, noting the Coalition’s rising unpopularity with the voters.
Chaudhry says as things stand, Rabuka seems to have bitten off more than he can chew with the heavy agenda he has set the government in the final months of his tenure having whittled the best part of his term enjoying the spoils of the office.
Chaudhry says for most of their term, the Coalition ministers achieved little, and in the final year, the Prime Minister suddenly wakes up to the unattended business and is trying to rush through four major exercises – constitution review and the passage of the Constitution Amendment Bill including a Referendum, electoral reforms, municipal elections and the general elections.
