Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) leader Viliame Gavoka said 70 per cent of the speech made by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama in Parliament was dedicated to SODELPA.
He said this showed SODELPA was the only political party that “threatens FijiFirst”.
“At the outset, we are very happy that the Prime Minister gave us about almost 70 per cent of his speech, he spoke on SODELPA.
It is very obvious that he is very worried about SODELPA,” he said.
Mr Gavoka also reaffirmed his position as the party leader.
He said his role and Tui Cakau Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu’s responsibilities were different but they were working towards the same goal –– and that was to lead SODELPA to victory in the next general election.
“A decision has been made that I am the party leader, in charge of taking the party to the 2022 election and that Parliament is under the leadership of Turaga na Tui Cakau to look after this very important platform for us, a platform where we make laws and, at the same time, ground our people in the way forward to the elections.
“So you have two leaders complementing each other, the synergy is there and you will see a lot of this happening as we progress into 2022. It is a position of strength that there are two leaders in SODELPA, one looks after the whole of Fiji, the campaign and one looks after this very important platform in Parliament,” he added.
Meanwhile, NFP leader Prof Biman Prasad described Mr Bainimarama’s speech in Parliament as a political stunt.
“After all the hugging scenes in Parliament on Monday, that was an unexpected political stunt put forward by the Prime Minister and he should know that NFP has been around for 57 years.
“FijiFirst is essentially the Prime Minister right now and I also want to say that under his leadership, this is one of the worst governments in the history of this country. Corruption is rampant, debt level is at the highest, sugar industry is almost dead and now with COVID pandemic, we are in a worse situation and this Government has very little ideas about what to do, ” he added.
