Vanuatu Prime Minister Edward Natapei voted out
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Vanuatu's Prime Minister Edward Natapei has been ousted from office in a no confidence motion.
The motion was passed 30 votes to 15, and Mr Natapei's Deputy Prime Minister, Sato Kilman has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister.
The move happened while Mr Natapei was out of the country, on his way to Cancun for the UN Climate Change Conference.
The vote of no confidence was driven by unhappiness over Mr Natapei's push to have five opposition MPs suspended from the house, and also over his position on allowing Fiji to take the rotating chairmanship of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.
Presenter: Campbell Cooney
Speaker: Vanuatu journalist, Alain Simeon
Natapei had previously lost his seat due to a paperwork error in 2009
The  of Vanuatu has lost his seat after a motion of .  was ousted after the vote, passed at 30 votes to 15, took place in parliament. Natapei was out of the country at the time of the vote, attending a climate change summit in , Mexico.

The vote took place after several members of parliament became unhappy with Natapei's decisions. He had tried to suspend five members of parliament from the house. There was also concern about his support for , the military leader of Fiji. Natapei supported Bainimarama when he took over as leader of the , the trade group of the South Pacific.

This is not the first time that Natapei has lost his seat. In 2009, he lost his post when he failed to notify parliament that he left the country. He was on an official visit to Trinidad and Tobago at the time. Natapei took the post of prime minister in 2008. , the deputy prime minister until the motion was passed, has been sworn in as Natapei's replacement.