Parliament dissolved

Vanuatu President dissolves Parliament

This comes on the eve of a proposed no-confidence motion in the leadership of the Prime Minister Bob Loughman which the Opposition was preparing to table in an extraordinary sitting of parliament on Friday morning.

RNZ Pacific has spoken with the Speaker of Parliament Seule Simeon who said he has heard the national broadcaster VBTC reporting that the President has signed an Instrument for the Dissolution of Parliament but he himself is yet to see the actual document.

President Baldwin dissolves Vanuatu parliament

     

At about 4pm today, President Baldwin unilaterally used his prerogative power to dissolve the 10th legislature of the Republic of Vanuatu giving reasons of “being unable to resolve the political crises by government and opposition.