He gave health reasons but an official report had criticised him for accepting unreported gifts.Trouble in FijiFiji's military chief, Frank Bainimarama, proclaimed martial law and scrapped the constitution that ethnic Fijians claim favours Fijians of Indian descent.
They not unnaturally then claimed favours in terms of appointments, franchises, tax breaks, cheap loans and rigged privatisations.The leader of the re-election effort was Mr Berezovsky, who had made a fortune in a career that had begun its rocket-like ascent in the business of car-dealing.
Because of an impasse over a proposed electoral law, which the opposition claims favours the government, municipal and legislative elections are years overdue.
Beatrice Romand said she longs to repeat her experience with English actors, such as Michael Caine, who are so "solid" compared with the glamour boys French cinema, she claims, favours nowadays.
The National Coalition Party MP Raija Vahasalo also complained that during a campaign event in Kirkkonummi the True Finns handed out leaflets at the same time that claimed she favoured Swedish-speaking residents in allocating local school funding.
The powerful, in other words, claimed to favour the moral course.
Some protesters dragged a donkey through the streets daubed with the words "Fuck Ahly" – a reference to the Cairo-based fans of al-Ahly FC, whom al-Masry supporters claim were favoured in Saturday's verdict.
Tubman's party called for the resignation of the National Elections Commission's chairman claiming he favoured the country's Harvard-educated president, who is Africa's first female head of state.
The spirit of bipartisan consensus that both parties claimed to favour after November's midterm elections had all but evaporated in recent days as the White House issued a string of veto threats over proposed legislation covering more contentious issues such as the environment and immigration.
Speaking in Merthyr Tydfil, Welsh leader Nathan Gill said the party would scrap the UK Treasury's Barnett formula, claiming it favoured Scotland.
