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New Nationalist Party (Fiji)
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{{Politics of Fiji}}
The '''New Nationalist Party''' is a
Fijian
List of political parties in Fiji political party with a strongly
nationalism nationalist platform, arguing for the paramountcy of
Fijian people indigenous Fijian interests and of the
Christianity Christian faith, professed by the great majority of indigenous Fijians but relatively few
Indo-Fijians, who comprise some
Demographics of Fiji 38 percent of the country's population. The party, a splinter from the
Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party, was registered on
1 June 2001 and claims to be the heir to the legacy of the late
Sakiasi Butadroka and the
Fiji Nationalist Party.
In a surprise announcement on
20 January 2006, the party announced that it was dropping its demand for the repatriation of Indo-Fijians to
India. Citizens of Indian descent would now be welcome to join the party, said party President
Saula Telawa, and to contest the
Fiji election of 2006 forthcoming election under its banner - provided that they were Christians. Aspiring candidates would need to submit references from a
Ratu Fijian chief and their local
pastor, to prove that they had been
Born again born-again Christians for a minimum period of three years, Telawa told the
Fiji Sun.
{{Political parties in Fiji}}
