Tonga's Prime Minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva, says his government's efforts to control the appointments of the attorney general and the police commissioner are in line with a 2014 report by a British constitutional consultant, Peter Pursglove.
Mr Pohiva has been claiming critical moves by the government have been frustrated by not have control over these posts.
The Pursglove Report was endorsed in 2014 by the Tu'ivakano government but never implemented.
The report is being resurrected now but the director of the Pasifika Centre at Massey University, Malakai Koloamatangi, told Don Wiseman there have long been concerns with it.
Tonga Prime Minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva Photo: RNZ Pacific / Koro Vaka'uta
