(1941-02-04)4 February 1941 Vanua Balavu, Colony of Fiji
Died
21 April 2020(2020-04-21) (aged 79) Suva, Fiji
Political party
Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua
Spouse
Leba Qarase (?–2020; his death)
Children
5
Laisenia Qarase (pronounced [lai̯seni̯aŋɡaˈrase]; 4 February 1941 – 21 April 2020)[1] was a Fijian politician. He served as the sixth Prime Minister of Fiji from 2000 to 2006. After the military quashed the coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry, Qarase joined the Interim Military Government as a financial adviser on 9 June 2000, until his appointment as Prime Minister on 4 July. He won two parliamentary elections, but a military coup removed him from power on 5 December 2006. He was later imprisoned on corruption charges brought by the military-backed regime.
A native of Vanua Balavu Island in the Lau archipelago, he was one of many Lauans to have held top leadership positions in Fiji.
^"Laisenia Qarase, former Fiji PM bookended by coups, dies at 79". RNZ. 21 April 2020. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
LaiseniaQarase (pronounced [lai̯seni̯a ŋɡaˈrase]; 4 February 1941 – 21 April 2020) was a Fijian politician. He served as the sixth Prime Minister of...
impasse between the military and the government of Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase. However, his powers were restored by Bainimarama on 4 January 2007...
resigned the next day, allowing LaiseniaQarase to resume the office of Prime Minister. In the ensuing election, Qarase was confirmed as Prime Minister...
democratically elected government led by Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase. Re-elected in May 2006, Qarase was ousted in a military coup on 5 December that year...
situation, then arrested Speight when he violated its terms. Former banker LaiseniaQarase was named interim Prime Minister and head of the interim civilian government...
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Naitasiri Province. He served in the interim Cabinet of Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase as Minister for Regional Development and Multi-ethnic Affairs, in 2000...
which was won by interim Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase's Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua party. In 2005, the Qarase government amid much controversy proposed...
Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua government, led by Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase, was re-elected for a third term in government, opposed by the Labour...
attended to, in order to allow the president to assume full executive power. Qarase was not a member of a political party when he headed the interim government...
shattered institutions. He withdrew his nomination, however, in favour of LaiseniaQarase, who was considered more of a consensus candidate, but became Deputy...
Appeals Tribunal. Perram also represented deposed Prime Minister of Fiji LaiseniaQarase in legal proceedings against his military replacement, Frank Bainimarama...
admiral. Bainimarama instigated the 2006 coup, removing Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase from power. He later restored Ratu Josefa Iloilo as president and himself...
nearly a decade, with the governments of both Mahendra Chaudhry and LaiseniaQarase refusing to offer Cabinet seats to their political opponents. It was...
was the only Indo-Fijian minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase. On 8 September 2005, he was acquitted of charges of conspiracy to...
possibility but wholeheartedly as a need. He accused Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase, who has also called for unity among ethnic Fijians, of hypocrisy,...
for Women, Culture, and Social Welfare in the interim government of LaiseniaQarase. She contested the 2001 election as a candidate for the Soqosoqo Duavata...
original on 5 January 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2011. "Fiji's former PM LaiseniaQarase jailed for corruption". BBC News. August 3, 2012. "Gaston Flosse condamné...
indigenous-dominated Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL). Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase of the SDL has admitted that his party won a number of seats on NFP...
as a Cabinet Minister in the governments of Mahendra Chaudhry and LaiseniaQarase, and in the military regime of Frank Bainimarama. Bune died of prostate...
for Information and Communications in the interim Cabinet formed by LaiseniaQarase. He held this office till September 2001, when he lost his seat in...
formed Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua of the interim Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase narrowly defeated the Fiji Labour Party of deposed former Prime Minister...
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against him. He added only God knew why her parents died. Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase announced on 4 May 2005 that a Reconciliation and Unity Commission...
Education and Minister in the Interim Government, former Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase, former Attorney-General Qoriniasi Bale, former Minister of Education...
the Fijian government which, at the time, was led by Prime Minister LaiseniaQarase. The intention behind deploying the military resources was to provide...
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