Fiji's former opposition leader says the Prime Minister's claims that he has majority support for the Reconcilation and Unity Bill are completely misleading.
Mick Beddoes, who has served a week on the parliamentary committee considering submissions on the bill, says 80 per cent of Fijians have not even read the bill.
He says the government is yet to distribute Fijian and Hindi translations of the proposed legislation.
"There's a lot more dissemination of information to be done by government before they can start claiming that the majority of people support it. They are counting on the Fijian or the Vanua support, but that doesn't mean the individual Fijian has even read the bill."
Mr Beddoes says the bulk of the submissions on the bill so far have opposed it.
He says the government will need to make serious amendments to contentious aspects of the bill if it wants to avoid being forced to withdraw it.
