In the end, Sogavare easily had the numbers, winning 32 votes to 15, with two abstentions.Ĭhina, meanwhile, said it was shipping in aid for its citizens caught up in the violence.
Opponents accused him and his government of lying, looting and using Chinese money to cling to power during a debate over a no-confidence motion brought by opposition leader Matthew Wale.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told lawmakers in a fiery 90-minute speech that he'd done nothing wrong and would not bow down to "the forces of evil" or to "Taiwan's agents." At one point he picked up his chair and banged it on the Parliament floor to emphasize a point. The leader of the Solomon Islands survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Monday following riots in the capital last month.
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