Op-ed: Is there an alternative to forming a government of national unity to amend Fiji's constitution?

As head of the People’s Coalition Government, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has publicly expressed interest in the possible formation of a GNU to facilitate and enable necessary amendments to the 2013 Constitution. It is also to promote national unity. [ . . . ] There are two inherent problems with amending the 2013 Constitution through a GNU approach. Firstly, the 29 MPs in the People’s Coalition Government all of whom are serving as ministers or assistant ministers are most unlikely to easily give up their ministerial appointments in order to enable the Prime Minister to bring in former FFP Members of Parliament into his Cabinet. And secondly, if all the former FFP MPs who choose to continue serving in Parliament, agreed to ‘cross over’ to join the Peoples Coalition Government in a GNU or grand coalition Government, there would no longer be any parliamentary Opposition. This should be of concern to everyone in Fiji.
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