MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE AGAINGST PM MANELE FILED IN PARLIAMENT

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A Motion of No Confidence in Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has been delivered to the National Parliament this afternoon.

No details of the motion are made available, but the Clerk of National Parliament Jefferson Hallu has confirmed tonight that his Office has received the notice of the Motion of No Confidence Motion today.

He said the motion was submitted by the MP for Central Honiara and the Chairman of Public Accounts Committee, Gordon Darcy Lilo.

Hallu also confirmed to SBMOnline that the Speaker has already received a copy and is now been put on notice in the house.

He further confirmed it will sit before parliament for seven clear days and by December 12th it will be mature and it can be moved after December 13th or afterwards.

The motion states “that the National Parliament of Solomon Islands resolves that it has no confidence in the Prime Minister.”

The motion is believed to be moved against the backdrop of several controversies the government had faced in recent weeks including exemptions and the current mining saga—which surfaced this week—costing the government millions of dollars in unpaid taxes and other revenues from a foreign mining company.

Manele’s eight-month-old Government of National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) has brought its first budget to Parliament yesterday through the second-reading by the Minister of Finance and Treasury, Sogavare.

The motion will be his first political test since Manele was elected in April this year. He won by 31 to 19 votes in April. Manele replaces former Prime Minister, Sogavare as the wing leader of OUR Party whose majority currently rule GNUT and continuing from DCGA, which the latter led from 2019 to 2024.

-by Robert Luke Iroga