The Fiji Labour Party has been temporarily suspended for its failure to comply with the key financial requirement of the Political Parties Decree.
The FLP was required to submit a payment of $6375.60 to the Registrar of Political Parties for the cost of the publication of its declaration of assets and liabilities, due on July 15th, but failed to do so.
Registrar of Political Parties, Mohammed Saneem said the financial responsibilities of the political parties and possible repercussions set out in the decree have been clear all along.
He said SODELPA and the National Federation Party met the payment deadline however the FLP failed to do this.
Saneem said unfortunately this seems to have been a deliberate decision by the FLP leadership to not abide by the decree.
The suspended FLP now has sixty days to pay or face deregistration as a political party.
During this period of suspension, the FLP cannot operate, function, represent or hold itself out to be a political party.
Leader of the now suspended Fiji Labour Party, Mahendra Chaudhry is currently overseas and we are trying to speak to him on the suspension.
Story by: Vijay Narayan
