Fijian MP Lynda Tabuya will remain in parliament after her party decided not to expel her over an explicit video of her circulating online.
Fijian MP Lynda Tabuya will remain in parliament after her party decided against expelling her over an explicit video that circulated online.Ms Tabuya is pursuing legal action against two people in relation to the matter and says they will be held accountable.Fijian MP Lynda Tabuya will remain in parliament after her party decided not to expel her over an explicit video of her that circulated online.
Fiji Police Force's Cyber Crime Unit is investigating how the video became public after Ms Tabuya lodged a complaint.It's an offence to post an intimate visual recording or videos of a person under Fiji's online safety laws. Commentators and advocates say she gained support from young people by appealing to them on platforms like Facebook."She is a friend of social media," executive director of women's advocacy group FemLink Pacific, Fay Volatabu, said.
"She is not seen as a traditional Indigenous Fijian woman. She straddles both worlds, the modern and the traditional," he said.The scandal over the explicit video is not the first time Ms Tabuya's personal life has come under public scrutiny.In the same week a female Fiji MP was demoted after an alleged affair, two female Solomon Islands MPs announced they would not be contesting next month's election. The kicker? They'd be replaced by their husbands.
Fiji National University politics expert Mosmi Bhim said in dismissing Ms Tabuya as minister, the government was reflecting conservative cultural and religious views on how leaders should behave.Fijian MP Lynda Tabuya, who has been dismissed as a minister over the scandal, says she's been subjected to online gender-based violence by people circulating the video.
"Rabuka is getting older, so there is this expectation that at some point he will leave politics and over the reins and there have been different camps advocating for different people," he said."We need to take the conversation back to … the intrusions of privacy and how people tend to weaponise that to attack women."Mr Kant said the treatment of female MPs is linked to Fiji's rates of violence against women and girls, which are some of the world's highest.
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