Tensions have risen after last week’s election delivered a hung parliament. Fiji has a history of military coups.
| Fiji’s Social Democratic Liberal Party is due to meet on Friday to decide if its decision to form a coalition with the opposition stands, a move that comes after the Pacific country’s military was called in to help police maintain law and order.
However, SODELPA’s board is to meet again on Friday, after the validity of the decision to back the coalition was challenged by the party’s general secretary and Fiji’s Supervisor of Elections.
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