Fiji First Party leaders appointed or what?

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A letter to the Editor of the Fiji Times writes:

Proposed party

IT'S encouraging to note the registration of the new party and the announcement of its office bearers. I wonder, however, whether they were elected or appointed.

J Nakarawa, Hamilton

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Have they had a meeting of members to discuss the office bearers?   If so, where and when, as the party has just been registered.  President, Vice-Presidents, General Secretary etc. I notice that the Tui Macuata has put his hand up.  Okay, the gifts of computers, gum boots, in the North etc. has worked for some people.  But there is a disquiet surely that the usual protocol in democratically voting for office-bearers  just didn't apply this time.