What started as protests against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific 15 years ago has seen the rise of a Greens Party from backbench politics to the new national government in Port Vila. When Verts Pacific became the first Green political party in the region by contesting an election in New Caledonia in 1999, no one envisioned that one day the Greens movement will be a potent force in politics in South Pacific
Late March, as Sato Kiloman succumbed to public pressure and quit the top job in Vanuatu, the call came for Vanuatu Green Party (Green Confederation) to lead the nation. And so we saw party leader Maona Carcasses Kalosil, become Vanuatu and the region’s first Greens prime minister. French Polynesian-born Kalosil is the also the first non ni-Vanuatu to take the role.
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Source: Islands Business