Today is December 5th, and it marks two years since the military takeover.
On this day, two years ago, the continuing disagreements between the Qarase led government and the military came to a head and the Army Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama declared that the military was taking over the control of the governance of the nation to start off it's clean up campaign.
Two years on, the interim government led by Commodore Bainimarama remains in power with one of its main objectives, to bring about a number of changes through the People's Charter, which includes the changing of the electoral system and to scrap the current race based system prescribed in the Electoral Act and the constitution. FICAC continues to charge people and over the past years a number of executives from the civil service and statutory bodies and the Ousted Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase have been charged - their cases are before the courts with the defence lawyers arguing that FICAC does not have any constitutional powers to charge people. A final determination on this matter is yet to be made. While there has been a lot of talk on electoral reforms and elections, there is still no definite timeframe on when Fiji will go to the polls again and which system would be used.
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