reduced the GCC's representation in the Senate to 14 members (out of 32), but recognised its right to name Presidents and Vice-Presidents.

From the late 1980s onwards, the Great Council of Chiefs was compromised by manipulation by the government. Following the coup of 2000, however, it worked, with mixed success, to regain its independence. In 2001, it dismissed 1987 coup leader and former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka