Fiji general election - September 17 2014

[Famous Mortimer]

"Despite thousands of Fiji nationals in New Zealand and Australia being eligible to vote few have registered, because they only found out recently that they had to apply to the electoral commission for the right to vote."

Wouldn't these be mostly Indian?

[Famous Mortimer]

Tell me if my impression is right.

Before the 1987 coup, Fiji was ruled by the Alliance, a conservative, mostly ethnic Fijian but not extremely racist party.

In the first elections after the 1987 coup, a new party called the Fijian Political Party came to power. This was a party made up of the coup leaders. As such, it actually was kinda racist.

After the failed 2000 coup, the SDL was founded. It was basically a resurrection of the Alliance and was supposed to be a moderate Fijian party. It largely came to replace the Fijian Political Party and then became increasingly conservative, culminating in the attempt to pardon the 2000 coup leaders, which led to the Bananarama coup in 2006.

Is that right?

Additionally, what I find weird, Bananarama seems to embracing a lot of former Fijian Political Party members, members of the 1987 coup party. Fiji First doesn't have former coup leader/PM Rabuka but it does have his successor Inoke Kubuabola and Foreign Minister Filipe Bole.