SUVA, Fiji (PINA, Jan. 7) - A new crisis is growing on financially crippled Nauru, with the Government’s budget defeated again and President Rene Harris refusing to resign, Opposition members said.
President Harris and his Cabinet have boycotted Parliament to prevent a motion of no confidence being moved, prominent Opposition MP David Adeang alleged.
Efforts to contact President Harris for comment have so far been unsuccessful.
The no-confidence motion is supported by the majority of the 21-square-kilometer island nation’s 18-member parliament, Mr Adeang said.
He said in the past three months, President Harris has seen the defection to the opposition of two backbenchers, two Cabinet Ministers, and the Speaker.
The Opposition group said President Harris is now supported only by "globe-trotting" Cabinet ministers and a small group of MPs, some appointed to head government corporations.
There has been a chorus of claims of Government...