Felix M. Anthony is a Fiji Indian trade unionist and politician. During the 2000 coup, he was illegally detained by members of the Taukei Movement, an ethnic Fijian extremist organisation. He was appointed to the

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in 2002 as one of eight nominees of the

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. Anthony is National Secretary of the

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(FTUC). He was reelected as General Secretary of the Fiji Sugar and General Workers Union on 11 March 2006. In the

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held on 6–13 May 2006, Anthony was elected to the

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seat, representing the Vuda Open Constituency for the

Fiji Labour Party The Fiji Labour Party (FLP; ),() also known as Fiji Labour, is a political party in Fiji. Most of its support is from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoc ...

(FLP). After his election, he was involved in a dispute with the FLP leader,

Mahendra Chaudhry Mahendra Pal Chaudhry (; born 9 February 1942) is a Fijian politician and the leader of the Fiji Labour Party. Following a historic election in which he defeated the long-time former leader, Sitiveni Rabuka, the former trade union leader beca ...

, over the way in which Chaudhry had chosen his Senate nominees. After the 2006 military coup by

Frank Bainimarama Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama (; born 27 April 1954) is a Fijian former politician and naval officer who served as the prime minister of Fiji from 2007 until 2022. A member of the FijiFirst party, which he founded in 2014, he began his c ...

, Anthony was appointed to the Board of Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) and the Board of Telecom Fiji. As head of FTUC, Anthony helped establish the People's Democratic Party, and in May 2014 he was elected party leader. Following the PDP's failure to win any seats in the 2014 election, he stepped down as leader, and was replaced by

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Sivia Qoro Adi Sivia Qoro is a former Fijian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives for a short time in 2006. A member of the Fiji Labour Party, she represented the constituency of Yasawa Nawaka. In 2006 she served as the Ministe ...

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