We were in Vanuatu on holiday when an election was on One of their candidates touted herself as the official candidate of Jesus Christ.
The following entry is contributed by Henry Schlechta.
The small island nation of Vanuatu held an election for the Parliament on 22 January. The election was called after fourteen MPs, including the Deputy Prime Minister and a number of other cabinet ministers, were sentenced to prison terms between 3 and 4 years for bribery. Despite an attempt by the Speaker (who is acting president when the President is out of the country, and is also one of those found guilty of bribery) to pardon himself and the other MPs accused, the sentences stood. Following this, President Baldwin Lonsdale (on the advice of Prime Minister Sato Kilman, who knew that he would likely face defeat in Parliament when it was recalled) called an early election.
I have written more extensively on Vanuatu’s political history here, but that’s quite a long story. It was initially a colony, governed by both…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Feb 29, 2016 @ 18:15:00
At one Luganville campaign rally, an independent candidate (who I believe was elected) finished his speech with a rendition of Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’.
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