Serge Vohor

Serge Vohor (born April 24, 1955 ) is a Vanuatu politician and former multiple prime minister of Vanuatu .

On December 21, 1995 Vohor became Prime Minister for the first time, replacing Maxime Carlot Korman . Just three months later he announced his resignation on February 8, 1996 and was replaced as Prime Minister by Carlot Korman on February 23.

On September 30, 1996, the Legislative Assembly of Carlot Korman pronounced distrust with 27 votes to 22, thus enabling Vohor to be elected Prime Minister for the second time. In the general election on March 6, 1998, Vohors Union of Moderate Parties (UMP) only achieved 12 of the 52 seats in parliament, while Donald Kalpokas ' Vanua'aku Pati 18 seats and the National United Party (NUP) the first Prime Minister of Independent Vanuatu, Walter Hadye Lini received 11 seats. Kalpokas and Lini then agreed to form a coalition government, which then led to Kalpokas being elected Prime Minister on September 30, 1998.

On November 25, 1999, Prime Minister Barak Sopé appointed him Foreign Minister. This office he also kept in the government of Prime Minister Edward Natapei from April 2001. This then appointed him on June 3, 2002 also as Deputy Prime Minister.

On July 29, 2004 Vohor became Prime Minister for the third time, after the parliament had previously elected him with 28 votes to 24 for Ham Lini . On August 18, 2004, he formed a government of national unity and appointed his opponent Lini as deputy prime minister and interior minister. A vote of no confidence failed on September 1, 2004, after Vohor's governing coalition received 31 of the 51 votes cast. However, another vote of no confidence on December 11, 2004 was successful. Vohor, who received only 14 votes against 39 votes against, was then deposed and replaced by Ham Lini.

After Prime Minister Sato Kilman was overthrown on April 24, 2011 by a vote of no confidence, Vohor was elected Prime Minister by parliament for the fourth time. On May 13, 2011, however, the Supreme Court declared Kilman's removal unconstitutional and reinstated him.