Vanuatu's opposition party boycotted parliament on Thursday and said it would lodge a court challenge to the defeat the previous day of its bid to remove Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau.
on Wednesday, with the opposition falling one vote short of the 27 needed to unseat him after criticising his government for signing a security pact with Australia.
Loughman drew Vanuatu closer to China as the previous prime minister, before losing a snap election in 2022. Vanuatu should not be "sucked into a game it does not want, to be used inappropriately by competing nations to exert dominance in our region", he said. Kalsakau said Australia had increased its aid, and a record number of world leaders had visited, in the eight months since he was elected.
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