There have been mixed reactions in Fiji to the interim prime minister's proposal, revealed at the United Nations, to abolish the current racial voting system in favour of one in which each voter has only one vote.
The retiring president of the Fiji Law Society, Devanesh Sharma, has told the Fiji Times that he subscribes to Commodore Frank Bainimarama's proposal because he feels the communal voting system is outdated.
The former prime minister and one of the architects of the 1997 Constitution, Sitiveni Rabuka, says the interim government would have to change the Electoral Act before they could implement these changes.
Mr Rabuka says they could promulgate a decree to make way for the changes and after the elected government comes into power, the changes can be put to the vote.
Mr Rabuka says the proposal is not all negative and it could be used as a platform to get back into the democratic system.
The ousted opposition leader, Mick Beddoes, says while a non-racial vision for the country is good, the way in which the interim government is trying to achieve it through the barrel of the gun is not.
Mr Beddoes says military intervention was not the way to introduce change in 1987 and in 2000 and it is not the answer now.
Mr Beddoes says it is difficult to argue with the aspirations of the interim prime minister except where he appeared to exaggerate allegations of vote rigging, and the inclusion of former military officers in the administration.
