New political party

New Vanuatu party aims to stop passport sales

The Daily Post reports the party, Vanuatu First, was launched in Port Vila yesterday.

The party's interim president and former Vanuatu Prime Minister Maxim Carlot Korman has also vowed to do away with the parliamentary secretary positions if he's elected to parliament in next year's election.

Equal employment rights for men and women and climate change and sustainable development are also high on the party's agenda.

Mr Korman says the party will have to navigate the country back to the independence path and the country must stop being bullied by foreign interests.