- Fijian Nationalist Party
The Fijian Nationalist Party (FNP) was a political party in
Fiji , founded in 1975 bySakeasi Butadroka , a parliamentarian who defected from the then-rulingFijian Alliance , on a "Fiji for the Fijians!" platform. Its support peaked in the parliamentary election of March 1977, when it took 24.4 percent of the popular vote. Though it won only one seat in the 52-member House of Representatives, most of its votes came at the expense of the Alliance, allowing theIndo-Fijian -dominated National Federation Party to win a plurality in the House and precipitating a constitutional crisis. The party changed its name in 1992 to the Fijian Nationalist United Front Party (FNUPF), and occasionally won parliamentary seats (three in 1992, one in 1999), but never regained the level of support it had enjoyed in the 1970s.In the late 1990s, the FNUFP merged with the Vanua Tako Lavo Party, which shared its strong opposition to the constitution adopted in 1997-1998. The merged party, known as the
Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party , was implicated byMaciu Navakasuasua , who was convicted of offences related to theFiji coup of 2000 , in the planning of the coup which deposed the elected government of Prime MinisterMahendra Chaudhry .
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