Ro Filipe is no longer SODELPA president

Ro Filipe is no longer SODELPA president

By Vijay Narayan
Monday 27/04/2020
Adi Litia Qionibaravi, Ro Filipe Tuisawau and Usaia Waqatairewa

Registrar of Political Parties, Mohammed Saneem has announced that Ro Filipe Tuisawau has been removed as SODELPA President and they will now wait for the party to appoint another person based on SODELPA’s rules.

Saneem has also stated that Adi Litia Qionibaravi is re-instated as General Secretary of the party while Usaia Waqatairewa is removed as a Registered Officer as the Fijian Elections Office will await the appointment of a Registered Officer pursuant to Section 11 of the Political Parties Act.

Saneem-sm15  Registrar of Political Parties, Mohammed Saneem. 

He says the changes have been made with immediate effect to ensure last week’s court orders are complied with.

High Court Judge Justice Vishwa Datt Sharma had declared that the AGM of SODELPA in June last year in Savusavu breached the party’s constitution and the 2013 constitution and the election of Ro Filipe Tuisawau as SODELPA President and Adi Litia Qionibaravi as the Vice President at the AGM were invalid.

The High Court Judge has also declared that all subsequent actions, meetings, resolutions, decisions, outcomes and directives of the management board following the AGM of SODELPA including the acceptance of Adi Litia Qionibaravi’s retrospective resignation and the appointment of Usaia Waqatairewa as the General Secretary of SODELPA are unlawful, invalid and ineffective.

The court has also declared that Adi Litia has ceased to be a member of the management board by virtue of certain sections of the party’s constitution.

Justice Sharma has also said that the mere fact that the defendants have acted in breach as referred to in his judgement does not mean that Ro Filipe and Waqatairewa are not entitled to hold office in their respective capacity as party President, Vice President and General Secretary.

He also says it is a matter for the financial members of SODELPA to elect or remove office bearers of SODELPA and further it is not a matter for the court to do so.

SODELPA’s Suva Constituency President Watisoni Nata, SODELPA’s Youth Wing President, Jope Koroisavou, the party’s Vice President of the Women’s Forum, Doctor Mere Samisoni, the party’s Secretary of the Women’s Forum, Emele Duituturaga, SODELPA Women’s Wing Lami President, Kesaia Makita and the party’s Lami Youth executive, Asenaca Ravulo had taken legal action against the party executives.

The legal action was filed against SODELPA President, Ro Filipe Tuisawau, Anare Jale, Adi Litia Qionibaravi and Usaia Waqatairewa.

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