Chaudhry Fiji's deposed Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, has advised the President to call fresh elections. The surprise move came during a meeting yesterday between Mr Chaudhry and acting President Ratu Josefa Iloilo. Afterwards he told the media that as the duly elected Prime Minister under the 1997 Constitution, he had advised the President to dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections. But other members of the Coalition who have deserted Mr Chaudhry want his former deputy Dr Tupeni Baba to be sworn in as head of a National Unity government. It is a smart tactical move by Mr Chaudhry and throws Fiji into even further confusion.
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The election campaign is coming as Australian retailers brace themselves for massive impacts from last month's terror attack in New York. The Anglican Church in Melbourne has attacked Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, with some members of the clergy calling for a royal commission.