The Fijian Nationalist Party (FNP) was a nationalist political party in Fiji .
12-820: FNP may refer to Politics [ edit ] Fijian Nationalist Party , a defunct political party in Fiji Freedom Now Party , a defunct political party in the United States Frisian National Party , a political party in the Netherlands National Progressive Force (Spanish: Fuerza Nacional Progresista ), a political party in the Dominican Republic Other uses [ edit ] FNP (complexity) Family nurse practitioner FlexNet Publisher ,
24-726: A software license manager FN FNP , a series of pistols Foundation for Polish Science , (Polish: Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej ) Friday Night Productions , an Indian entertainment company The Friday Night Project , a British television programme The Frederick News-Post , a newspaper in Frederick, Maryland Frankfurter Neue Presse , a German daily newspaper based in Frankfurt am Main National Property Administration in Taiwan Topics referred to by
36-593: A triumph and a setback for the Alliance Party of the Prime Minister , Kamisese Mara . The Alliance received 52% of the popular vote, only slightly down on its previous total, but won only 28 seats, eight fewer than in the previous elections of September 1977. Part of the reason for this discrepancy was that the slight surge in support for Mara's Alliance in the Indo-Fijian community, from 14 percent to 16 percent,
48-488: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fijian Nationalist Party The party was established on 19 January 1974 by MP Sakeasi Butadroka after he had been expelled from the Alliance Party . Using its slogan 'Fiji for the Fijian', it called for the abolition of the common roll and two-thirds of seats in parliament to be reserved for Fijians. Its support peaked in
60-743: The 1997 constitution . The merged party, known as the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party , was implicated by Maciu Navakasuasua , who was convicted of offences related to the Fiji coup of 2000 , in the planning of the coup which deposed the elected government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry . This article about a political party in Fiji is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1982 Fijian general election Kamisese Mara Alliance Kamisese Mara Alliance General elections were held in Fiji between 10 and 17 July 1982. The paradoxical results were both
72-605: The March 1977 general elections , when it received 5.3% of the vote. Although it won only one seat in the 52-member House of Representatives , most of its votes came at the expense of the Alliance, allowing the Indo-Fijian -dominated National Federation Party to become the largest party in the House and precipitating a constitutional crisis . Early elections were held in September 1977, in which
84-601: The Fijian community. The Fijian-dominated Western United Front , established in July 1981 and led by Osea Gavidi , formed an electoral pact with the Indo-Fijian dominated National Federation Party , resulting in the NFP standing down in six Fijian national constituencies to allow the WUF to run. The Alliance received 86% of the vote in the Fijian communal constituencies, with the WUF on 7% and
96-602: The party lost its only seat and saw its vote share halved. After failing to win a seat in elections in 1982 and 1987 , in 1992 the party was renamed the Fijian Nationalist United Front Party won three seats in the elections that year . However, it lost all three seats in the 1994 elections . In the late 1990s, the FNUFP merged with the Vanua Tako Lavo Party , which shared its strong opposition to
108-621: The previous elections, had been reunited. A total of 137 candidates contested the 52 seats in the House of Representatives . One candidate – Subramani Basawaiya of the National Federation Party – was elected unopposed in the Savusavu–Macuatu East Indo-Fijian communal constituency, after his sole opponent, Alliance Party candidate Shiu Prasad, withdrew from the contest shortly before the elections. The Alliance claimed
120-496: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title FNP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FNP&oldid=1206188143 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Spanish-language text Articles containing Polish-language text Short description
132-468: The withdrawal was tactical, as it would mean Indo-Fijian voters would be less likely to come out to vote, giving the Alliance an advantage in the national constituencies . The Fijian Nationalist Party campaigned on a 'Fiji for the Fijians' platform, with their manifesto including policies of reserving 46 of the 52 seats in the House of Representatives for Fijians and returning all freehold and crown lands to
SECTION 10
#1732851597902144-502: Was not sufficient to translate into seats in Fiji's communal electoral system, and did not therefore off-set losses among the ethnic Fijian community, particularly in the west of the country. The Western United Front of Osea Gavidi won only two seats, but split the vote, allowing the National Federation Party (NFP), with which it tactically allied itself, to gain seven seats for a total of 22. The NFP, which had split into two factions before
#901098