{"id":624,"date":"2001-03-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/03\/25\/2001-03-25-fiji-to-restore-democracy\/"},"modified":"2001-03-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-25T12:00:00","slug":"2001-03-25-fiji-to-restore-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/03\/25\/2001-03-25-fiji-to-restore-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji To Restore Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/asia-pacific\/newsid_1237000\/1237882.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>FIJI, March 23, 2001: Last May&#8217;s coup toppled the democratically-elected government, but Fiji&#8217;s caretaker Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announced a two-week period for the elections starting August 25 to enable citizens in remote islands to vote. He said the country&#8217;s president, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, had set the date for polls for the 71-seat parliament. Qarase took charge last year in an interim government appointed by the military under a deal with nationalist rebels, who had demanded the multi-ethnic constitution be scrapped and ethnic Indians barred from power. The new government &#8212; made up of indigenous Fijians &#8212; was declared illegal by the Court of Appeal this month, but was later reinstated by Mr Iloilo. The elections will be seen as a key test of the former British colony&#8217;s determination to return to democratic government. Ethnic Indians make up 44% of Fiji&#8217;s 800,000-strong population.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE FIJI, March 23, 2001: Last May&#8217;s coup toppled the democratically-elected government, but Fiji&#8217;s caretaker Prime Minister Laisenia,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}