Fiji threatens to quit the Commonwealth

By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney Published: 10:43AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, the personality of the Pacific nation, lambasted Commonwealth countries for perplexing to force him to take the nation to the polls.

"The Commonwealth has not attempted to assimilate or attend to Fiji"s aspirations, but have been posing the same questions over and over again about the lapse to democracy," he told Fiji Broadcasting Media.

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"I have obviously settled over and over again, what needs to be done, and when Fiji will lapse to democracy and this will be finished with or but the await of Australia, New Zealand or the Commonwealth."

Fiji would cruise withdrawing from the Commonwealth in sequence to "stop being harassed", the FBC inform said.

Commodore Bainimarama seized energy in a 2006 manoeuvre and last year sacked the law and took carry out of the country"s media. He has resisted general calls for a lapse to democracy but has pronounced he will hold an choosing in 2014 at the earliest.

In Sep Fiji was entirely dangling from the Commonwealth after Commodore Bainimarama pennyless a guarantee to hold elections by Mar 2009.

Commodore Bainimarama pronounced re-engagement with the Commonwealth could take place after the 2014 elections, but that would be the preference of the new government.

He pronounced his supervision programmed to finish the electoral reforms that will finish the ethnic-based choosing by casting votes complement sloping in foster of racial Fijians and do their charge to put in place a new constitution prior to the elections.