Posted at 04:50 on 06 March, 2012 UTC
An Australia-based academic Jon Fraenkel says a recent interview with Fiji regime leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama is further evidence he has no clear plans for Fiji’s promised constitutional review and elections.
The interim Prime Minister has given a rare interview to a foreign journalist, in which he agreed he might stand in elections, promised for 2014.
He also said he did not know what form the elections set for 2014 would take but he presumed Fiji would continue where it had left off.
He also said anyone could stand in the elections and there would be equal suffrage.
Dr Fraenkel says the Commodore appeared reticent and goaded into replies by his interviewee.
“The only interesting thing in the interview really that he said himself was that he’s not really sure what he’s doing. On the issue of specific new institutional provisions proposed for this constitutional review, Bainimarama is quite clear. We’ve had lots of evidence to suggest this, that he doesn’t seem to quite know where he’s going with the whole thing.”
Dr Jon Fraenkel of the Australian National University
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2 comments:
This guy obviously didn't even watch the interview. vague? who is he kidding. Bainimarama even said that Qarase could stand against him in the election. Doesn't sound vague to me. bring it on but take this idiot Fraenkel out of the ring in a straight jacket and let the fight begin.
Its very obvious that the ILLEGAL PM has already read the questions before hand.
Let's get a real journalist that wil ask him the real hard questions and lets see how he will come across then.
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