Week 14 forum
Explain the major provision of 2013 constitution? Critically evaluate.
The 2013 Constitution purports to address some of the greatest challenges of the past. For, example, the document finally address the deep ethnic divide in Fiji, Each voter has one vote of equal value, and votes are cast for political parties.
Fiji's fourth constitution was signed into law by President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau on September 6, 2013, coming into effect immediately. It is the first to eliminate race-based electoral rolls, race-based seat quotas, district-based representation, the unelected upper chamber, and the role of the hereditary Council of Chiefs. It vests sole legislative authority in a single-chamber, 50-seat, at-large Parliament, to be first convened following general elections in 2014. It is also the first ever to grant the right to multiple citizenship (in effect since 2009 by decree, on abrogation of the 1997 constitution), and lowers the voting age to 18