Fiji's opposition leader, Mick Beddoes, has attacked the prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, saying he is unable to show that he is a leader of all the people of the country and remains just the leader of a community.
In a statement, Mr Beddoes says Mr Qarase remains in denial of the state's poor response to the needs after Cyclone Ami and is unable to elevate himself to be the leader of the people.
Mr Beddoes' comments follow Mr Qarase's rejection in parliament of criticism of discrimination in the distribution of relief supplies.
Mr Qarase also rejected a bipartisan committee to oversee the distribution of relief supplies, saying the Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, has refused to take a bipartisan approach on important national issues such as land, sugar and constitutional changes.
Mr Beddoes says Mr Qarase's implication that all was well in the north following the cyclone was in contradiction of his own minister for rural development who had said just days earlier that there were problems and shortcomings.
The opposition leader rejected Mr Qarase's allegation that he was deriving political mileage from helping villagers in Vanua Levu after the cyclone.
