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Fiji's military will assist police in maintaining "security and stability", the Pacific island's police commissioner said on Thursday, citing growing concerns of racial tensions after last week's
Opposition parties have disputed reports by police that businesses or homes of Fiji's large ethnic Indian population had been stoned in the wake of the election, and have called for evidence of this. COUP HISTORY The Pacific island nation, with a population of 900,000, had a history of military coups before constitutional reform in 2013 to remove a race-based voting system that favoured indigenous Fijians over ethnic Indians. Bainimarama has been prime minister for 16 years, taking power in a coup, and later winning two democratic elections in 2014 and 2018.
Fiji's police force says it has requested assistance from the country's military after reports of violence in the wake of last week's national election.
While prime minister Frank Bainimarama lost his parliamentary majority, it remains unclear whether the fragile opposition coalition, led by another coup leader and ex-prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka, will take office.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Fiji's Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) 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.