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The Cabinet of Fiji is the Fijian Government's body of Ministers. It is 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]
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 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:
| Party key | FijiFirst |
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| Portrait | Portfolio | Incumbent | |
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 | 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 Trade Tourism 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 Lands and Mineral Resources | Ashneel Sudhakar | |
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 | |
References
^ Constitution of the Republic of Fiji, chapter 4, part B.
^ Constitution of the Republic of Fiji, section 91.
^ Constitution of the Republic of Fiji, section 95.
^ Constitution of the Republic of Fiji, section 95.
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