James Wango

James Wango, also known as James Ngwango, is a ni-Vanuatu politician.

James Wango

Minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Quarantine
In office
13 May 2011  15 June 2011
Prime MinisterSato Kilman
Preceded byEta Rory
Succeeded bySteven Kalsakau (interim)
Minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Quarantine
In office
20 February 2011  24 April 2011
Prime MinisterSato Kilman
Preceded byMarcellino Pipite
Succeeded byEta Rory
Member of Parliament
for Ambae
Assumed office
2 September 2008
Personal details
Political partyPeople's Progress Party

A member of the People's Progress Party, of which he is the treasurer,[1] he was elected to Parliament as MP for Ambae in the September 2008 general election, one of four MPs from the People's Progress Party.[2][3]

In December 2010, Prime Minister Edward Natapei was ousted in a motion of no confidence, and PPP leader Sato Kilman replaced him.[4] Kilman set up a coalition government, which did not include Wango,[5] and the latter eventually defected to the Opposition.[6] In February 2011, as the Opposition prepared a motion of no confidence against Kilman's premiership, the Prime Minister secured his majority by offering Wango a position in Cabinet. Wango joined the government as Minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Quarantine.[7]

Kilman was eventually ousted in a vote of no confidence on 24 April 2011, however, and Wango lost his position in government.[8] He recovered it three weeks later, on 13 May, when the Court of Appeal voided the election of Serge Vohor's new government on constitutional grounds, and the Kilman government was restored.[9] This lasted for only a month; on 15 June, the Kilman premiership was itself voided on constitutional grounds by the Supreme Court's Chief Justice Vincent Lunabek, and Wango lost office once more.[10]

References

  1. "The political parties and groupings of Vanuatu", Pacific Institute of Public Policy, August 2008
  2. Members of Parliament Archived 12 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Parliament of Vanuatu
  3. "Members of the 9th Legislature of Parliament", Vanuatu Today
  4. "Vanuatu's Natapei ousted in no confidence challenge". Radio New Zealand International. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  5. "New govt", Vanuatu Daily Post, 7 December 2010
  6. "Who will have the last laugh?", Vanuatu Daily Post, 21 February 2011
  7. "Reshuffle spares govt", Vanuatu Daily Post, 21 February 2011
  8. "New look Vanuatu government sworn in". Radio New Zealand International. 25 April 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  9. "Vanuatu Court decision results in change of government", ABC Radio Australia, 13 May 2011
  10. "Vanuatu Court rules Kilman election void, reinstates Natapei as interim PM". Radio New Zealand International. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.



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