Fwd: FW: Regenvanu launches new party in Vanuatu - "Graon mo Jastis Pati"

[MIKE WAIWAI]

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From: Ralph Regenvanu <ralph.r...@vanuatuculture.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:36 PM
Subject: FW: Regenvanu launches new party in Vanuatu - "Graon mo Jastis Pati"
To: Ralph Regenvanu <ralph.r...@vanuatuculture.org>

Olgeta -
Hemia wan artikol we i kamaot long latest isiu blong “Islands Business” magazine.
Ta, Ralph

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POLITICS:  New party for ‘MP Ralph’ Youth cornerstone of his constituency

Bob Makin

Regenvanu has done much to support those out of work His MP allowance has been used to
establish business opportunities for young people who can group together and assist each other in making a better life with little capital.

Ralph Regenvanu, son of one of the fathers of Vanuatu’s independence, Pastor Sethy Regenvanu, holds high hopes for the people of Vanuatu.
Now an outspoken MP, after winning the highest number of votes in the 2008 national elections in Vanuatu, people of Vanuatu see him as a future leader.
Whilst he remains on the government side in Parliament, he is an outspoken opponent of corruption and in the Public Accounts Committee, he is unflinching in his attempts to wrench the facts from those on the witness stand. It helps that he is a lawyer and an anthropologist.
From the start of his political career in 2008, Regenvanu was seen as a future leader. However, he lacked a party with the sort of credentials he was seeking. Throughout the country has come appeals for “MP Ralph” to form a party.
The island of Gaua petitioned Regenvanu to set up a party. This was a stronghold for former prime minister, Ham Lini.
Regenvanu’s home island of Malakula was thoroughly behind him in every way and urged him to push for land and justice as issues troubling the vast majority of voters in Vanuatu today.
And so was born the Graon mo Jastis Pati (GJP) in mid-November.
Regenvanu has done much to support youth, and especially those out-of-work, in town. His MP allowance has been used to establish business opportunities for young people who can group together and assist each other in making a better life with little capital. He is also a founder of the music festival, Fes’Naspuan, which brings artists from all around the Pacific, generally in October, for a week of music-making and enjoyment of each other’s company.
Youth are the cornerstone of Regenvanu’s constituency. The young were out in great force at the party’s launch.

Rock steady
There was hi-hop and string band music and the Acapella Union brought a standard of harmony to religious numbers which Vanuatu has not heard.
However, there were also mums and dads, chiefs and pastors who have maintained the debate against corruption (and the falling standards in public life), whether in the home, the church or the nakamal, or in print, for a very long time.
The Ground and Justice Party is rock steady on its four legs, Regenvanu told the many hundreds of participants at the GJP party launch. The four legs are the chiefs, churches, women and youth: without any of these elements, the party cannot stand upright.
Candidates for parliamentary election in GJP will be severely tested on their record of community service. Candidates must also find their electoral registration fees. This is to encourage self-reliance.
Prime Minister Natapei and the ruling Vanuaaku Pati-led coalition may not need to worry about ‘MP Ralph’ for the time being. But GJP and ‘MP Ralph’ will be challenging the whole country come 2012, when Vanuatu next goes to the polls. Regenvanu represents a new breed of young, articulate politicians who are changing the old order by not aligning with any of the existing parties.

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From: Ellzen Tafau <reuben...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Regenvanu launches new party in Vanuatu - "Graon mo Jastis Pati"
To: MIKE WAIWAI <waiw...@gmail.com>

Good Aftanun Mike,

 

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Thank you

 

Reuben Tafau