Cabinet of Fiji

Politics of Fiji
Polity type	Parliamentary Representative Democratic Republic
Constitution	Constitution of Fiji
Legislative branch
Name	Parliament of Fiji
Type	Unicameral
Presiding officer	Epeli Nailatikau, Honorable Speaker
Executive branch
Head of State
Title	President
Currently	Jioji Konrote
Appointer	Parliament
Head of Government
Title	Prime Minister
Currently	Frank Bainimarama
Appointer	President
Cabinet
Name	Cabinet of Fiji
Current cabinet	Cabinet of Frank Bainimarama
Leader	Prime Minister
Judicial branch
Courts	The Supreme Court, The High Court, Court of Appeal, and The Magistrates Court

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The Cabinet of Fiji is a Government body of Ministers appointed by the Prime Minister of Fiji and responsible to the Parliament of Fiji. The Cabinet's constitutional basis is sections 90 to 96 of the 2013 Constitution of Fiji.^[1]

Cabinet consists of the Prime Minister as chair and a number of Ministers.^[2] With the exception of the Attorney-General, they must be members of Parliament. Ministers hold office at the pleasure of the Prime Minister, or until they resign or cease to be MPs.^[3]

The cabinet is responsible to Parliament. Ministers must provide regular reports to Parliament on their areas of responsibility and must appear before Parliament or any committee on a request to answer questions about their areas of responsibility.^[4]

Prior to the 2006 Fijian coup d'état and the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Fiji's Cabinet was governed by the 1997 Constitution. An unusual feature of the constitution was to require a compulsory coalition cabinet, with every political party with more than 8 seats in the 71-member parliament required to be offered a proportionate number of cabinet posts. The model was not successfully implemented for nearly a decade, with the governments of both Mahendra Chaudhry and Laisenia Qarase refusing to offer Cabinet seats to their political opponents. It was only after the 2006 election that a full multi-party Cabinet was appointed. The multi-party model was not continued in the 2013 constitution.

Current cabinet[]

After the 2018 General elections:

Cabinet of Fiji: November 2018 – present

Portrait	Portfolio	Incumbent
	Prime Minister Minister for iTaukei Affairs Minister for Sugar Foreign Affairs		Frank Bainimarama
	Attorney-General Minister for Justice,Economy, Civil Service, Communications and Public Enterprises		Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
	Minister for Local Government Housing and Commercial Development		Premila Kumar
	Minister for National Security and Defence		Inia Seruiratu
	Minister for Fisheries		Semi Koroilavesau
	Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation		Mereseini Vuniwaqa
	Minister for Employment, Productivity Industrial Relations Youth and Sports		Parveen Bala
	Minister for Education and Heritage, Arts		Rosy Akbar
	Minister of Agriculture Environment, Rural and Maritime Development Waterways		Mahendra Reddy
	Minister for Health and Medical Services		Ifereimi Waqainabete
	Minister for Infrastructure Transport Disaster Management and Meteorological services		Jone Usamate
	Minister for Forestry		Osea Naiqamu
	Minister for Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport		Faiyaz Koya
Assistant Ministers
	Assistant Minister for Education, Heritage & Arts		Joseph Nand
	Assistant Minister for Agriculture Environment, Rural and Maritime Development Waterways		Viam Pillay
	Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Deputy Speaker of the House		Veena Bhatnagar
	Assistant Minister for Agriculture Environment, Rural and Maritime Development Waterways		Jale Sigarara
	Assistant Minister for Health		Alexander O'Connor
	Assistant Minister for Local Government, Housing & Community Development		Vijay Nath
	Assistant Minister for Employment, Productivity Industrial Relations Youth and Sports		Alvikh Maharaj
	Assistant Minister for Sugar		George Vegnathan
Others
	Speaker of the House		Epeli Nailatikau
	Leader of Opposition		Sitiveni Rabuka
	Former FijiFirst cabinet minister, now President of Fiji		Jioje Konrote

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