Former Fiji PM wants 2011 elections
![Former Fiji prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka has told the interim government to ignore the Commonwealth's threat. [AFP]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200810/r307080_1343468.jpg "Former Fiji prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka has told the interim government to ignore the Commonwealth's threat. [AFP]")
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Former Fiji prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka has told the interim government to ignore the Commonwealth's threat. [AFP]
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Former Fiji coup leader Major General Sitiveni Rabuka, says he wants elections to be held in 2011.
General Rabuka, who led the two 1987 military coups says the current interim government should ignore the Commonwealth and Pacific Islands Forum's request to hold elections this year.
However, Mr Rabuka says the constitutional and electoral reforms the interim government proposes can only be made by the Parliament.
He's told Pacific Beat he wants the reforms to be put to the people in a referendum.
"In that way we do not change the constitution unconstitutionally, and we leave it to parliament to make the changes that the interim government feels it should have supported or not supported in the referendum of 2011," he said.
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