Fourteen members of the parliament in Vanuatu, a small island nation located a little northeast of Australia, were convicted last Friday for a scheme in which legislators accepted cash bribes in exchange for voting out their prime minister. The speaker of Vanuatu's parliament, one of the convicted MPs, then pardoned himself and the other 13 — which he could only do because the president was out of the country. Now Vanuatu is in the middle of a constitutional crisis.
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