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| Fiji coup leader restored as PM | Fiji coup leader restored as PM |
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| Fiji's leader has restored his military chief, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, to the post of interim prime minister a day after suspending the constitution. | Fiji's leader has restored his military chief, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, to the post of interim prime minister a day after suspending the constitution. |
| President Ratu Josefa Iloilo acted after a senior court ruled that Commodore Bainimarama had come to power illegally through a coup in 2006. | President Ratu Josefa Iloilo acted after a senior court ruled that Commodore Bainimarama had come to power illegally through a coup in 2006. |
| The president's actions have been condemned by the US and Australia. | The president's actions have been condemned by the US and Australia. |
| Commodore Bainimarama was sworn in at a ceremony at Fiji's Government House, from which foreign media were banned. | |
| The president declared on Friday that he had taken over the government after the Appeal Court ruled that the current government was illegitimate. | |
| He went on TV to say he had appointed himself as "head of state in the new order" and that his choice of interim prime minister would serve for five years to allow time for necessary reforms before elections could be held. | |
| Pressure for elections | |
| Mr Iloilo has been a staunch supporter of Mr Bainimarama, who has repeatedly ignored international demands to restore democracy, says the BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney. | |
| President Iloilo has been a staunch supporter of Frank Bainimarama | |
| The three-judge Court of Appeal panel had upheld a challenge to Mr Bainimarama's rule by ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. | |
| The court said the military government - the product of the country's fourth coup in 20 years - was illegal and should be replaced with an interim government, led by neither Mr Qarase nor Mr Bainimarama. | |
| Australia and New Zealand have led international pressure on Mr Bainimarama to hold elections this year under the constitution that was in place until now. | |
| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week backed that view. | |
| United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed for calm. |