Fiji's ruling military has imposed new rules on political parties, raising further concerns regarding the country's move away from democracy.
According to the new rules, trade union executives and other 'public officials' are to be banned from creating political parties, and political parties are banned from accepting donations from foreign governments, companies, inter-government or non-government organisations.
Parties have been instructed to reach a membership threshold in order to register as a political party, which means that the current 16 parties will have 28 days to increase their membership to over 5000.
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