Editing Suva (section)

==Municipal government==
{{Main|Suva City Council}}

Suva has [[Local government in Fiji|municipal]] status and, until 2009, was governed by a [[Mayor|lord mayor]] and a 20-member [[city council]]. The Suva City Council was the municipal law-making body of the city of Suva, Fiji's capital. It consisted of 20 councillors, elected for three-year terms from four multi-member constituencies, called wards. Councillors were elected by residents, landowners, and representatives of corporations owning or occupying taxable property in Suva councillors in turn elect, from among their own members, a lord mayor and deputy lord mayor, who served one-year terms and were eligible for re-election.

However, in 2009, the [[Republic of Fiji Military Forces|military]]-backed interim Fijian government dismissed all municipal government officials throughout Fiji and appointed special administrators to run the urban areas. {{As of|2015}}, elected municipal government had not been restored. The special administrator of Suva, along with nearby [[Nasinu]], is [[Chandu Umaria]], a former lord mayor of Suva.<ref name="RNZI_44529">{{cite news |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=44529 |title=Ba ex-mayor says Fiji municipal reform was expected |date=2 February 2009 |work=[[Radio New Zealand International]] |access-date=15 November 2011 |archive-date=28 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728114837/http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=44529 |url-status=live }}</ref>