WORLD BRIEFING / FIJI
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The president assumed control and fired the judges who a day earlier had declared the South Pacific island’s military government illegal.
President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced in a nationally broadcast radio address that he had abolished the constitution, assumed all governing power and revoked all judicial appointments. “I hereby confirm I have abrogated the 1997 constitution and appointed myself as head of state in the new order,” he said.
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