Who Holds Power
Pio Tikoduadua
Pio Tikoduadua holds Defence, leads NFP, and has not yet decided whether he will contest 2026. One of the party’s most senior figures.
Fiji Politics
Constitutional Review Commission
Ten Months to Five Weeks: The Compressed Public in Fiji's Constitutional Review
Ten months in 1996. Five weeks in 2026. The CRC Report will be tabled on 22 September. The referendum could be held by mid-December. FPR examines what Fiji's own constitutional practice used to require.
Who Holds Power
Manoa Kamikamica
Deputy Prime Minister. Chartered accountant. Founding People's Alliance figure. Nine months on the backbench, and now back at Cabinet with Public Enterprises added to his brief.
Vanua
iTaukei Land Legislation and Vanua Consent: The Framework the Constitution Delegates
The 2013 Constitution protects iTaukei land ownership. It says nothing about who decides what happens on it. That work sits in the iTaukei Land Trust Act 1940 and the Land Use Decree 2010 — instruments that vest control in state bodies. The vanua owns. The Board decides.
Vanua
Ceremony as Constitution: The Tui Nayau and the Limits of Written Sovereignty
The Tui Nayau's authority is not delegated by the Fijian state. It predates the Fijian state. It has continued through every constitutional order the Fijian state has produced.
Republished
Leaders missing and China ‘furious’: the Pacific Islands forum off to a decidedly shaky start
Five Pacific leaders absent, China furious over Taiwan's inclusion. The 55th Pacific Islands Forum in Palau. Republished from The Conversation.
Who Holds Power
Ioane Naivalurua
Ioane Naivalurua controls policing and communications as Fiji heads to the 2026 election. Former Police Commissioner. Former Independent. Now inside Cabinet.
Constitutional History
The Agreement that Built the 1997 Constitution
In September 1987, a political settlement was signed. It lasted 48 hours. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has not yet asked why.
Who Holds Power
Siromi Turaga
Siromi Turaga holds two of the most consequential levers of Fiji's 2026 election: Acting Attorney-General and the minister responsible for the vote itself.
Long Read
What the Republic Requires and Deserves
A republic is the most demanding form of government. It requires its citizens and its rulers to want something beyond their own immediate interest. FPR examines what that means for Fiji right now.
Policy Watch
Policy Watch: The Vuda Incinerator Is Rejected
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change said no. After a 1,500-page EIA, submissions and petitions, TNG Fiji's proposed 900,000-tonne waste-to-energy plant at Vuda has been rejected. TNG has until 3 July to appeal.
Policy Watch
Policy Watch: The Referendum Budget Without a Framework
The government has allocated funds for a referendum without a legal framework. The Finance Minister confirms the budget is in place. The Supervisor of Elections confirms she cannot act on it.
Briefing
Election Watch: Fiji's Missing Municipal Elections
Fiji's municipal councils have been run by government appointees for 21 years. No elections. No accountability to residents. FPR examines what that costs, and what it would take to change it.
Constitution
Introducing the FPR Constitutional Reference
An independent annotated reference to the 2013 Constitution — plain language explanations, FPR analysis, and CRC Watch notes. Free and publicly accessible.