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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Fiji president reappoints former coup leader as PM Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:04am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji's president reappointed former coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama to head the politically unstable South Pacific nation's government on Saturday, less than two days after a court ruled his 2006 coup illegal. Fiji has suffered four coups and a bloody military mutiny since 1987, mainly as a result of tensions between the majority indigenous Fijian population and the economically powerful ethnic Indian minority. Bainimarama was sworn in as caretaker prime minister in the morning by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who Friday annulled the 1997 constitution and sacked the entire judiciary, including the judges who declared Bainimarama's former government illegal Thursday. "He just came, he read the oath and he was appointed as prime minister," a local journalist told Reuters by telephone. In the afternoon Bainimarama, who is also military chief, reappointed nine ministers in his former government to the same posts. They were sworn in by the 88-year-old Iloilo, an ethnic Fijian like Bainimarama. Bainimarama came to power in a bloodless coup in 2006. On Thursday, in a case brought by former prime minister Laisenia Qarase, the Court of Appeal overturned an earlier judgment that the military chief's government was legal, and called for a new government led by neither man pending fresh elections. Bainimarama initially said he would step down. But after annulling the constitution Friday, the president enacted emergency powers for the country's military and police, initially for 30 days but with the possibility of extension. Iloilo also issued a decree giving himself the power to appoint a prime minister by decree and other ministers on the advice of the prime minister. These powers are to remain in force until a parliament is elected under a new constitution yet to be adopted. Iloilo has called for fresh elections in 2014. However, his actions have been widely criticized overseas. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has criticized the annulment of Fiji's constitution and called for it to be reversed. Despite the political upheavals, the situation in Suva has remained generally calm for the Easter weekend. In an address to the nation Saturday, Bainimarama called for all sections of society, including the media, to cooperate with the emergency regulations and promised elections by September 2014. He said Iloilo had no choice but to abrogate the constitution as a result of the "anomaly" in the judges' decision and "the serious consequent vacuum created by that decision." One of the three judges involved in Thursday's decision, Australian Randall Powell, warned of a legal vacuum in Fiji as a result of the president's suspension of the judiciary, with large numbers of cases potentially going untried. Powell has returned to Australia since the decision. "It seems that Commodore Bainimarama has shown his true colors," Powell told Australia's SBS television. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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