Former Opposition leader Sitiveni Rabuka yesterday submitted his application to register his newly proposed political party.
A statement released by the Fijian Elections Office stated that the Registrar of Political Parties, Mohammed Saneem, was now processing the application to register the proposed “People’s Alliance”.
According to the Political Parties (Registration, Conduct, Funding & Disclosures) Act, an association of persons or an organisation shall not operate, function, represent or hold itself out to be a political party unless it has been registered as a political party.
Under the Act, the application for registration of a new proposed political party should be accompanied by a schedule, setting out the names, addresses, signatures and voter identification card numbers of at least 5000 members of the proposed political party from all four divisions.
Mr Rabuka said the proposed party would have to wait for the result and at the same time plan on what to do in the near future.
He said he would not be able to comment further as the proposed party awaited its application result.
Meanwhile, speaking to this newspaper during an interview last week, Mr Rabuka revealed that some people who contested the 2018 general elections have resigned from political parties they represented to join him in the next election.
He confirmed this during an interview at his home in Namadi Heights.
“Some people have resigned from their political parties in the last general elections to join me,” Mr Rabuka said.
“They have shown their support for the next general elections.”
