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140: 22: 903: 822:. The FAP contested only 15 seats, on a platform of alleviating poverty through income-generating projects, reducing health costs and increasing education assistance for poor families, promoting indigenous Fijian culture, and increasing the participation rate of women at all levels of decision making. The party also attempted to make inroads into the 787:
in order to broaden its support base. The FAP won ten seats in the 71-member House of Representatives, its best result ever. The FAP initially proposed Speed for Prime Minister, saying that she would be more acceptable to indigenous Fijians than Chaudhry. President Mara, however, persuaded her to
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accept Chaudhry as Prime Minister, pointing out that the FLP had won a majority - 37 seats - in its own right. Towards the end of 1999, Speed survived a challenge to her leadership of the FAP in a divisive
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in the army, in 1987. Speed joined the FAP in 1995 after falling out with her late husband's party over the direction in which
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of 1994, which was called three years early because of political instability. Following Kamikamica's death from cancer in 1996,
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In June 2002, most members of the FAP joined with three other parties, including its former rival, the
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was held in 2001, but by this time many of its members had left to join the new
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The government of which the FAP was a part was deposed in the
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of 1992, Kamikamica and five of his supporters had left the
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of 1999, the FAP joined with Chaudhry's FLP as part of the
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
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electorate, accusing the United Fiji Party of promoting
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throughout the 1990s but lost all of its seats in the
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