Manasseh Sogavare, who alarmed Australian officials by aligning his nation closer to Beijing, will not run for another term as Solomon Islands prime minister.
The most pro-China leader in the Pacific, Manasseh Sogavare, has conceded his prime ministership is over after suffering a bruising voter backlash in this month’s Solomon Islands elections, a development that will come as a major relief to Australian officials.
Solomon Islands Governor-General David Vunagi has summoned elected MPs to the national parliament on Thursday to choose a prime minister. The election was mostly fought on local economic issues rather than geopolitical issues such as Chinese influence, Wood said. The failure of any party to gain an outright parliamentary majority has triggered an intense round of negotiations, with rival politicians and their advisers holed up at chosen hotels in the nation’s capital as they scramble to secure the numbers required to form a government.
While Australia and the United States would welcome the end of Sogavare’s prime ministership, Keen said that competition for influence in the Pacific would remain intense.
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