Fiji's cabinet seeks supreme court opinion on constitutional amendment process

Cabinet has agreed to seek an opinion from the Supreme Court on the interpretation and application of the amendment provisions of the 2013 Constitution. [ . . . ] This comes as the Bill to amend the 2013 Constitution was defeated in Parliament. The Bill sought to change the requirement for the 75 percent of the Members of Parliament needed to amend the Constitution and to also entirely remove the requirement of a referendum and support of 75 percent of the registered voters under Section 160. It also sought to amend Section 159(c) relating to repealing, infringing or diminishing the effect of Chapter 11 of the Constitution which is about amendments to the Constitution.
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