This article lists .
Fiji has a Multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form Coalition Government s.
Have representatives in the House Of Representatives :
Not represented in the House Of Representatives at present:
- Dodonu Ni Taukei (DNT) - Ethnic Fijian Party led by Dr Fereti S. Dewa .
- Fijian Association Party (FAP) - founded by Josefata Kamikamica ; significant in the 1990s but wiped out in 2001 . Most members merged in June 2002 into the new Fiji Democratic Party (q.v.); a rump continues under the leadership of Ratu Inoke Seru .
- Fijian Political Party , better known by its Fijian name, ''Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei'' (SVT), ethnic Fijian; the governing party from 1992 to 1999 , but decimated in 1999 and anihlated in 2001 . Partially merged into the Fiji Democratic Party (q.v.) in June 2002 .
- General Voters Party (GVP), the rump of a once-significant party that mostly merged into what is now the United Peoples Party (q.v.) in the late 1990s . Led by Dan Johns .
- Girmit Heritage Party (GHP), a small Indo-Fijian party led by Beni Sami .
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- Lio On Famor Rotuman Party (LFR), a party representing Rotuman Islanders , led by Sakumanu Pene
- 2005 by ''Ratu'' Epeli Ganilau as the successor to the defunct Fijian Alliance (q.v.)
- National Federation Party (NFP) - predominantly Indo-Fijian; once a major political party
- Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (NVTLP), led by Iliesa Duvuloco
- New Nationalist Party , led by Saula Telawa . A splinter from the NVTLP (q.v.)
- Party Of The Truth (POTT), led by Nimilote Fifita
- People's National Party , predominantly ethnic Fijian; effectively led by Meli Bogileka ; formed from a merger of the Party Of National Unity (PANU) - and the Protector Of Fiji (Bai kei Viti, founded by Ratu Tevita Momoedonu ).
- Social Liberal Multicultural Party , led by Joketani Delai
Parties existing only at the Municipal level:
Political parties that have played a pivotal role in the past, but are now defunct.
- All Nationals Congress - formerly a multiracial party. Split, with some joining the Fijian Association Party (FAP) (q.v.), and others the United General Party . (q.v.)
- Christian Democratic Alliance , more commonly known by the Fijian acronym ''VLV'' (''Veitokoni ni Lewenivanua VaKarisito'') - founded in 1999 , this party won 19 percent of the vote and 3 seats in the 1999 Election . It was weakened in 2001 when the leader, Poseci Bune , defected to join the Labour Party . In June 2002 , this party merged into the new Fiji Democratic Party (q.v.)
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- Fijian Alliance (Alliance Party) - the former ruling party ( 1967 - 1987 ); founded by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara . On 18 January 2005 , Ratu Epeli Ganilau , the past Chairman Of The Great Council Of Chiefs , formally registered the National Alliance Party Of Fiji as the claimed successor to the defunct party.
- Fijian Nationalist Party - a hardline Nationalist party advocating Indigenous Fijian supremacy, founded by Sakiasi Butadroka in 1975 . Merged with the Vanua Tako Lavo Party in 1999 to form the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (q.v.)
- Fiji Democratic Party - founded in June 2002 by Filipe Bole as a merger of the Fijian Association Party, the Christian Democratic Alliance, the New Labour Unity Party, and most members of the Fijian Political Party. Dissolved in April 2005 and merged into the new National Alliance Party Of Fiji (q.v.)
- Party Of National Unity (PANU) - multiracial party founded in 1998 by Sairusi Gagavoka ; now merged into the People's National Party (PNP) (q.v.), though plans have been floated recently ( December 2005 ) to revive the party.
- Protector Of Fiji (Bei Kei Viti; BKV) - ethnic Fijian party founded in 2001 by Ratu Tevita Momoedonu ; now merged into the People's National Party (PNP) (q.v.)
- Vanua Tako Lavo Party - Nationalist party advocating political supremacy for Indigenous Fijians , founded by Iliesa Duvuloco . Merged with Fijian Nationalist Party in 1999 to form the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (q.v.)
- Western United Front , political party based in the western part of Viti Levu , active in the early 1980s .
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