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Fiji's indigenous government must be reshaped to include ethni9c Indian MPs from ousted leader Mahendra Chaudhry's Labour Party, the racially divided South Pacific nation's Supreme Court ruled on Friday, ,report agencies.
Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, who has ruled out holding snap elections, said he would abide by the unanimous ruling of five Supreme Court judges that he must offer Labour MP's cabinet posts. Chaudhry said he expected a phone call from Qarase soon. "It is a question now of whether leaders are prepared to swallow their ego and work in the national interest, or much less persist with their own agendas," Chaudhry told reporters.
There was no immediate public reaction after the decision, which was delivered amid tight security in the capital Suva. Police appealed for the calm to continue.
"The security forces are pleading
with the general public ton receive the decision calmly. Let the
courts and the politicians do their job," Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes
said.
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