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Chaudhry sacked; Momoedonu
is new Fiji Prime Minister

Ratu Tevita Momoedonu was sworn in as Fiji's prime minister by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo at Lautoka on Wednesday.

Iloilo, who will himself be sworn in as president for another term on Thursday, will appoint a caretaker government.

Momoedonu was minister for labour and industrial relations in the interim government, besides being prime minister for a day during last year's political crisis and is a member of Fiji's Labour Party.

A few hours earlier, Mahendra Chaudhry was sacked as prime minister.

Iloilo told Chaudhry that he had been sacked for advising dissolution of Parliament last week, and also because he had accepted that he no longer had Parliament's mandate.

Iloilo was named President by the Great Council of Chiefs meeting on Tuesday.

Iloilo, 80, had taken over from Ratu Kamisese Mara after the military assumed executive powers at the height of the crisis that followed the May 19 coup.

Agencies

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