{"id":1290,"date":"2025-01-30T03:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2025-01-29T03:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:30:25","slug":"vanuatus-political-parties-unite-to-form-coalition-government-following-snap-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu&#8217;s Political Parties Unite to Form Coalition Government Following Snap Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tusi Tala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders from five political parties in Vanuatu have reached an agreement to establish the upcoming coalition government. The parties involved are the Leaders Party, Vanua&#8217;aku Party, Graon Mo Jastis Party, Reunification Movement for Change, and the Iauko Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, the leaders signed a memorandum of agreement in Port Vila. Although official results from the recent snap election, preliminary outcomes indicate that this coalition holds a sufficient number of seats to govern. They collectively have over 30 seats, surpassing the 27 required for a majority in the 52-seat parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, the next prime minister of Vanuatu is likely to be one of the five party leaders: Jotham Napat (Leaders Party), Johnny Koanapo (Vanua&#8217;aku Party), Charlot Salwai (Reunification Movement for Change), Ralph Regenvanu (Graon Mo Jastis Party), or Marc Ati (Iauko Group).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the snap elections held on January 16, more than 180,000 Ni-Vanuatu voters participated, just a month following the devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake that affected the capital, Port Vila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tusi Tala Leaders from five political parties in Vanuatu have reached an agreement to establish the upcoming coalition government. The parties involved are the Leaders Party, Vanua&#8217;aku Party, Graon Mo Jastis Party, Reunification Movement for Change, and the Iauko Group. This week, the leaders signed a memorandum of agreement in Port Vila. Although official results&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-vanuatu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}