Because we absolutely do not get enough news from Vanuatu…
The prime minister of Vanuatu, Edward Natapei, has been ousted by a vote of no confidence in parliament while out of the country.
In the 2008 election, the largest party won 11 of 52 seats. So I imagine holding a coalition together is not so easy. (It’s a pure parliamentary system, with a ceremonial president.)
I have a more-than-passing interest in Vanuatu (pop. 221,552), because it is one of a small (and diminishing) number of countries to use SNTV for its national legislature. I even have Vanuatu data in a forthcoming paper on candidate vote distributions under SNTV and OLPR. So it’s nice to see the country’s politics in the news.
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Is said paper available for public consumption?
Seed planted by Jack — 16 December 2010 @ 16:42
Jack, thanks for asking. I am hoping to revise it a bit this winter break and then post it for comments (and, soon, submit it somewhere).
Seed planted by MSS — 16 December 2010 @ 17:48
Israel, the USA and Vanuatu… umm… all three have had a head of government named “Bara[c]k”, and… um….
Seed planted by Tom Round — 17 December 2010 @ 03:47
Vanuaatu once had possibly the silliest form of government on record. The Condominium of New Hebrides (unkindly known as the pandemonium of New Hebrides) had a British and a French governor, 2 official languages, 2 legal systems (or 3 if you count the law administered in the ‘mixed courts’), 2 school systems, 2 police forces, 3 bureaucracies and 3 court systems.
Seed planted by Alan — 18 December 2010 @ 03:41