SODELPA Leader Sitiveni Rabuka has confirmed that SODELPA and some other political parties had tried to form a United Party where they all wanted to come together and field 51 candidates in the 2018 elections but that fell through for various reasons.
Rabuka highlighted this at the Panel Discussion and Public Forum for Free and Fair Election at the Wesley Butt Street Church Hall, when told by businessman, Charan Jeath Singh that they will have to form a coalition if they want to defeat the FijiFirst.
Rabuka says that it is too late now and they had gone ahead and named their line up for the elections.
He says that they may have sounded like a group that is banned from the objective of defeating FijiFirst, but they are trying to make Fiji free.
Meanwhile, the panel which consisted of FLP Leader Mahendra Chaudhry, former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, SODELPA Leader Sitiveni Rabuka, National Federation Party Vice President Seni Nabou and Unity Fiji Secretary Satish Kumar, were then questioned by Arnold Chanel, a FijiFirst member, if they were having the first ever coalition meeting to remove FijiFirst from government.
National Federation Party Vice President Seini Nabou said that it is not a coalition.
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