The leader of Fiji's National Federation Party Biman Prasad has hit out at a government plan to appoint a team of professional administrators to run local councils.
Representative municipal councils were dumped in 2009 during military rule and since then Fiji's towns and cities have been run by government appointed administrators.
The Local Government Minister Premila Kumar has suggested a team of professionals will be brought in to administer them and she says local elections won't be held until major reforms are made.
But Professor Prasad told Christine Rovoi the move is undemocratic, and he has called on Ms Kumar to allow elections to proceed.
Biman Prasad Photo: RNZI/Alex Perrottet
