The Fijian Nationalist Party (FNP) was a nationalist political party in Fiji .
4-557: 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 the March 1977 general elections , when it received 5.3% of the vote. Although it won only one seat in
8-640: 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 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
12-682: 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 the 1997 constitution . The merged party, known as the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party , was implicated by Maciu Navakasuasua , who
16-526: 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 . Sakeasi Butadroka Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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