New Hebrides Representative Assembly

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The New Hebrides Representative Assembly was a unicameral legislature in New Hebrides Condominium from 1975 to 1980. It was the first elected legislative arm in the condominium.

The Representative Assembly replaced the unelected advisory council. It had initially 42 members,{{cite web |last1=Agency |first1=United States Central Intelligence |title=National Basic Intelligence Factbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYDftwNgSZQC |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |language=en |date=1977}} and the 1975 elections with universal suffrage allowed Melanesians to participate for the first time. In addition to the members elected by universal suffrage also other interest groups elected members.{{cite web |title=Custom and Politics in the New Hebrides|url=https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/b_fdi_49-50/010017201.pdf |author=Bernard Hours}} The first meeting of the assembly took place in July 1976.{{cite web |title=New Zealand Foreign Affairs Review |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qOk1AQAAIAAJ |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |language=en |date=1976}} The British and the French resident commissioners had override veto power over assembly decisions.

New Hebrides became an internally self-governing in January 1978.{{cite journal |last1=Jupp |first1=James |last2=Sawer |first2=Marian |title=New Hebrides 1978-79: Self-Government by Whom and for Whom? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25168391 |journal=The Journal of Pacific History |pages=208–220 |date=1979|volume=14 |issue=4 |doi=10.1080/00223347908572377 |jstor=25168391 |url-access=subscription }} The Parliament of Vanuatu took over all functions of the Representative Assembly upon Vanuatu's independence in July 1980.

Chairmen of the Assembly

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[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Leymang Gérard Leymang]{{cite web |last1=Garae |first1=Len |title=Farewell to Government Building {{!}} News {{!}} dailypost.vu |url=https://dailypost.vu/news/farewell-to-government-building/article_79bd050d-adf8-5f05-b1ca-2249e5f0f17c.html |date=1 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901172844/https://dailypost.vu/news/farewell-to-government-building/article_79bd050d-adf8-5f05-b1ca-2249e5f0f17c.html |archive-date=2019-09-01 }}

| July 1976

| November 1977

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Maxime Carlot Korman

| November 1977

| December 1978

| {{cite web |last1=Macdonald-Milne |first1=Brian |last2=Thomas |first2=Pamela |title=Yumi Stanap |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBRMSRbOSLUC |publisher=editorips@usp.ac.fj |language=en |date=1994}}

George Kalsakau

| December 1978

| 1979

| {{cite web |title=Who's who in Oceania |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=It_kAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus |language=en |date=1980}}

Fred Timakata

| November 1979{{cite web |title=Pacific Islands Monthly: PIM. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGV0AAAAMAAJ |publisher=Pacific Publications |language=en |date=1981}}

| 1980

| Resigned

Maxime Carlot Korman

| 1980

| July 1980

| Became Speaker of the Parliament of Vanuatu

Elections

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