Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says the Government remains committed to holding the next general elections by 6th February next year, with no legal basis for a one-year extension.
While responding to questions by fijivillage News in Savusavu, Rabuka confirms there have been suggestions to extend the deadline for the elections, but it is outside the law.
When questioned about concerns that the constitution process is being rushed, Rabuka says they started talking about the constitution in 2013, when it was decreed into being.
He says everybody were talking about it, and everybody who had spoken about it should have come forward during the consultation.
Rabuka adds the result of the consultation is what they are now taking through Parliament.
He also says that the recommendations in the Constitution Review Commission's report are not the final proposed amendments that will go before Parliament.
He says a Cabinet sub-committee has been deliberating on the Commission's proposed amendments over the past two weeks and making changes.
The Prime Minister says those changes will be the ones that make their way to Parliament.
