James Wango | |
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Minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Quarantine | |
In office 13 May 2011 –15 June 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Sato Kilman |
Preceded by | Eta Rory |
Succeeded by | Steven Kalsakau (interim) |
Minister for Agriculture,Livestock,Forestry,Fisheries and Quarantine | |
In office 20 February 2011 –24 April 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Sato Kilman |
Preceded by | Marcellino Pipite |
Succeeded by | Eta Rory |
Member of Parliament for Ambae | |
Assumed office 2 September 2008 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | People's Progress Party |
James Wango,also known as James Ngwango,is a ni-Vanuatu politician.
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]