A Pacific Islands Forum report on Leadership in the Pacific has censored a section on Fiji.
The report, looking at leadership practice against the Forum principles of good leadership, found leaders generally respect their laws and systems of government but there is a growing dominance of the executive over the legislature.
The report says the Fiji report has been censored and is excluded from the book project.
Dr Steven Ratuva from the Centre for Pacific Studies In Auckland wrote the Fiji section, and says it may not have been the right time to look at leadership in Fiji.
"What we had to do was capture what was happening right then. So, in the case of Fiji things were changing very fast, things were moving here and there, so they haven't really settled down. So it is kind of an exercise that needs to be carried out in a normal situation, as it were, normal in the sense that countries have settled down, and Fiji had just gone through a coup."
Steven Ratuva says he is not surprised that the Forum Secretariat chose not to publish the Fiji section.
The Forum secretariat has been unavailable to comment.
