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A legal ruling on whether the Speaker of the Vanuatu Parliament had the right to declare 19 seats vacant is due to be delivered this Friday.
The Vanuatu Court of Appeal will announce its judgement on whether the Supreme Court was right to dismiss an appeal by the 19 MPs.
On 8th June the speaker at the time, Gracia Shadrack, declared that 19 seats, held by government MPs, were vacant, because the MPs had been absent from parliament for three consecutive days.
Vanuatu parliament
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This was later upheld by the Supreme Court.
But the MPs affected claim that Supreme Court Judge, Oliver Saksak, erred by dismissing their constitutional application.