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Vanuatu to have snap election after opposition's Supreme Court challenge dismissed

Vanuatu will hold snap elections next month after a court ruled that the President's contentious decision to dissolve parliament two years early was legal.

The country's Supreme Court upheld the abrupt dissolution of parliament in early August, which critics say was engineered by Prime Minister Bob Loughman to avoid a vote of no confidence that he may have lost.

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