Acting Fijian Prime Minister and Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has confirmed to FBC News, that the constitution will be finalised next month.

He says the constitution will be available in three languages, English Hindi and i-taukei.

“As we said we have given some time frames, for the constitution to be completed, and the main part is that we also getting it completed or translated in the vernacular languages. The Bainimarama government believes that the constitution needs to be made available in the vernacular. So everybody has a good understanding and they don’t necessarily get misled,” said Khaiyum.

Sayed-Khaiyum says the public will be able to review the document in the next few weeks.

“We would like the public have access to the constitution, in the vernacular languages and of course in the English language, at least for couple of weeks.”

He said the constitution will be finalized after it’s translated into the two vernacular languages

Meanwhile, Sayed-Khaiyum says the Commerce Commission doesn’t have the legal authority to deliberate on the complaint by the now suspended Fiji Labour Party (FLP).

The FLP had earlier written to the commission on the high fees for the publication of its assets and liabilities in the Fiji Sun.

“The question of whether the Commerce Commission has jurisdiction over this particular issue, whether they have the legal ability to make a determination regarding it. It does not, and the commerce commission has already written to the Labour Party saying it does not have that legal authority to make a determination, but none the less they have in-fact gone ahead and compared the rates that was charged by the Fiji Sun in respect to their advertisement and they also found the fact the rates that Fiji Sun charge were cheaper.”

The suspended Fiji Labour Party was required to pay about $6,300 to the Registrar’s office by 15 July.

“The fact is that the registrar of political parties has obviously taken the decision for the suspension for the Fiji Labour Party on the basis that there was non-compliance to the actual law in place. Should the Political Party in question remedy the breach then obviously they can again operate as a political party and they are given sixty days to remedy their breach.”

A representative of the suspended Fiji Labour Party Surendra Lal, told FBC News that arrangements are being made to pay the Registrar of Political Parties.