Fiji opposition leader suspended from parliament for sedition

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Fiji’s opposition leader and its long-serving former prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has been suspended from parliament for three years for sedition and insulting the president. The suspension came days after he launched an extraordinary verbal attack on the country’s president, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere. In a provocative first speech as opposition leader on the opening day of parliament on Monday, Bainimarama criticised Katonivere – who is also the former president of Bainimarama’s party, Fiji First – for supporting the new government, saying he had “failed the Fijian people”. “He will go down in history as the person who aided and abetted...