Marcellino Pipite
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Marcellino Pipite is a ni-Vanuatu politician and former school administration, who was first elected to Parliament in 2004. He was the foreign minister of Vanuatu<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> from November 2004 until December 2004, in the government of Serge Vohor. He was previously the minister for comprehensive reform.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He lost his position in the cabinet in December 2004 when the Vohor government fell.
He was elected as the Speaker of the Parliament of Vanuatu on 16 June 2015,<ref name=rnzi>Template:Cite news</ref> and served until October 2015.
On October 10, 2015, while serving as acting President, he pardoned himself and 13 other MPs who the Supreme Court had found guilty of bribery.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> President Baldwin Lonsdale, returning to Vanuatu hours after Pipite's pardon has been issued, declared that nobody is above the law and revoked the pardon, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court of Vanuatu.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Pipite and 10 of the other MPs faced charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Sentencing on the bribery charges went ahead and Pipite was jailed for 3 years, together with most of the other convicted MPs.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>