SUVA: Fiji’s military regime said yesterday it had given three political parties permission to contest elections scheduled for next year, the first vote since a 2006 coup in the South Pacific nation.
Fiji’s Registrar of Political Parties Mohammad Saneem said the trio were the only ones to meet strict criteria for political organisations set down in a decree issued by the government earlier this year.
Saneem declined to say how many of the 17 parties operating before the decree came into force had unsuccessfully applied to contest the elections.
The parties granted registration are the National Federation Party, the Fiji Labour Party and the Social Democratic Liberal Party.
AFP
