Premier Reinstated as Caretaker Leader
Laisenia Qarase, leader of a post-coup Fiji government that a court ruled was illegal, was recalled as caretaker prime minister to lead the racially split country to elections expected in August.
Qarase’s government stepped down Wednesday when President Josefa Iloilo named his own nephew, Tevita Momeodonu, as premier.
A court ruled March 1 that Qarase’s military-backed government was illegal, deepening the political crisis that began when nationalist rebels toppled Fiji’s first ethnic Indian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, in May.
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