Lynda Tabuya (file image) Photo: Fiji Government
Fiji's Prime Minister will likely make the call on whether Women's Minister Lynda Tabuya will be dismissed.
The People's Alliance Party (PAP) legal sub-committee were given two weeks to produce its decision after the party received a written complaint against Tabuya after allegations she was embroiled in a drug and sex scandal.
But the committee has sought an extension after an outcome was due today as its have not been able to finalise its report after Tabuya's disciplinary hearing on Monday 12 February.
PAP general secretary Usaia Pita Waqatairewa told RNZ Pacific "the panel is still compiling their report and have until the end of the week and [then we] will call a management meeting."
Tabuya's conduct has been in the limelight alongside demoted Cabinet minister Aseri Radrodro after allegations of an extra-marital affair and drug use between the pair during an official parliamentary training trip to Australia in August last year surfaced online.
Waqatairewa confirmed to RNZ Pacific on Monday that the party's chair, who is Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, will likely oversee the final decision.
"It's up to them what they want to do. He [Rabuka] is the chair. They [legal sub-committee] might ask him to make a call or decide as a joint committee decision."
Waqatairewa said the nature of the complaint that the party received "may be linked" to lewd images of Tabuya that have been shared on online platforms and blogsites.
He also confirmed that the PAP Board was aware that she had contacted the Australian government twice in regards to taking her images down.
Tabuya has denied the allegations involving Radrodro and told RNZ Pacific and local media it was "fake news".
