Kalkot Mataskelekele

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Kalkot Mataskelekele (2009)

Kalkot Mataskelekele (born April 24, 1949 ) is a Vanuatu politician. He was President of Vanuatu from August 16, 2004 to August 16, 2009 .

He is a lawyer from the capital Port Vila and the first Vanuatu head of state to graduate from university.

Mataskelekele had already run for the presidential election in April 2004 with the support of the government of Edward Fanua'ariki , but was defeated by Alfred Maseng Nalo at the time . After the resignation of Maseng and new parliamentary elections, a new presidential election was held on August 12, 2004, which lasted until August 16. After Willie David Saul with 27 and Donald Kalpokas with 26 votes had not achieved the constitutional majority in the ballot on August 13, 2004 and the ballots on August 16, 2004 initially also failed to produce majorities for one of the candidates, the Chief Justice decided that the Election assembly should meet until the constitutional election of a president. Kalpokas withdrew his candidacy, so that finally Mataskelekele was elected president with 49 votes out of 7 votes for Saul.

Mataskelekele was the brother-in-law of the first prime minister of independent Vanuatu, Walter Hadye Lini .