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Vanuatu Labour Party
Vanuatu Leba Pati
Abbreviation
VLP
Leader
Joshua Kalsakau
Founder
Ephraim Kalsakau
Founded
3 June 1987 (1987-06-03)
Ideology
Democratic socialism Labourism
Political position
Left-wing
National affiliation
Vanuatu National Workers Union
Parliament
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The Vanuatu Labour Party (Bislama: Vanuatu Leba Pati; French: Parti Travailliste du Vanuatu) is a political party in Vanuatu. The party was established on 3 June 1987. It was founded on the initiative of various trade union organizations in order to contest the 1987 parliamentary election. The proposal to found the party was first presented by Ephraim Kalsakau, a leader of the Vanuatu Municipal Workers Union.[1]
In the 1987 polls, it presented four candidates; George Kalsakau in Port Vila, Willy Romain in Tanna, Thomas Reynold in Luganville and Kenneth Satungia of Efate.[1] All four candidates were trade union leaders.[2] Ephraim Kalsakau later claimed that the electoral participation was mainly intended as an awareness-raising effort, and that the party hadn't expected to win any of the seats.[3]
The party did not present candidates in the 1991 parliamentary election.[2]
The party gained parliamentary representation in 2005 as Joshua Kalsakau, then the Minister for Ni-Vanuatu Business and an MP from Efate representing the National Community Association Party, joined the party.[1]
Joshua Kalsakau is the president of the party whilst Lui Kaltonga is its general secretary.[4]
The party is connected to the Vanuatu Council of Trade Unions and the Vanuatu National Workers Union. The main stronghold of the party in the capital Port Vila.[1]
Joshua Kalsakau was reelected from his seat in the 2008 parliamentary election.[5][6] In Luganville, the party had launched Pierre Malamlaen as its candidate. Malamlaen was however not elected.[5] After the elections, Joshua Kalsakau was named as the new Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Edward Natapei.[7] In the 2012 general election, Kalsakau narrowly lost his seat, by a margin of just twelve votes (out of more than 15,000), leaving Labour without representation in Parliament.[8]
^ abcd"The political parties and groupings of Vanuatu" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
^ ab"Industrial Relations In Vanuatu" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
^Van Trease, Howard (ed.). Melanesian Politics: Stael Blong Vanuatu. Christchurch: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, 1995. p. 410
^"Vanuatu Daily Post". www.dailypost.vu. Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ ab"Vanuatu Daily Post". Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
^"IPU PARLINE database: VANUATU (Parliament), Last elections". Ipu.org. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
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