Supervisor of Elections and Registrar of Political Parties, Mohammed Saneem says the Political Finance Assessment of Fiji Report published by International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) can be classified as personal opinion by the author and the report is also touching on issues that do not deal with political finance.
The lead author for the Sweden based organisation, International IDEA report was Nilesh Lal who is the Executive Director of Dialogue Fiji.
Saneem says they have done a preliminary analysis on the report.
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The Supervisor also says only 26 of the 36 assessment questions were not covered, and he also raised the experimental recommendations like allowing companies to make donations to the political parties.
Saneem says it looks like a flip flop proposal.
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Saneem will have a press conference focused on the report at 3pm today.
Stay with us for developments.
We have contacted the lead author, Nilesh Lal.
He has opted not to make any comments.
Fijivillage is trying to speak to International IDEA on the report and comments by Saneem.
