FLP Attacks Govt, Fiji Sun But Short On Poll Policies
The Fiji Labour Party (FLP) used its annual delegates conference yesterday to launch a scathing attack on the Government and the Fiji Sun newspaper.
Mention of the party’s official policies going into the 2018 general elections was kept at a bare minimum.
Speakers at the meeting in Suva instead attacked Government policies.
Party leader and one-time Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry also joked that the current Government be removed in the same way as Zimbabwe’s long-serving leader Robert Mugabe.
“Going on a lighter note, and as we approach the end of the week, there were two reports in the media this week that caught my attention,” Mr Chaudhry said.
“One was of course, as has already been mentioned, was the fall of Mugabe from power after a long, long time and I hope we can do it a bit earlier here than that.”
He accused the media of deliberately ignoring – and as a result weakening – members of the Opposition, singling out the Fiji Sun newspaper and the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation. He praised the Fiji Times.
Mr Chaudhry criticised the recently announced National Development Plan (NDP), which he said should not have been launched thousands of miles away at COP23.
“It’s a big roadshow, this so-called COP23 and this climate change conferences,” the former PM added.
He said he did not have anything against the Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama, assuming the presidency of the climate summit but only wanted to him to spend more time in Fiji.
The conference included Father Kevin Barr, party President Lavinia Padarath, former Fiji National University vice-chancellor Ganesh Chand, political activist Jone Dakuvula and lawyer Aman Ravindra Singh.
Edited by Naisa Koroi
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