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Patrick Joseph Manarewo Kalpuaso Crowby (6 July 1958 – 27 December 2013) was a ni-Vanuatu politician.

Crowby was born in Port Vila in 1958.^[1] He began his career as a primary school teacher in 1978.^[1] In 1987, he obtained the title of Manarewo as customary chief. In 1991, he became a member of the National Bureau of Tourism. He would subsequently preside over the Bureau from 2007 to 2008.^[1]^[4]

In 1992, he was appointed president of a sub-committee of the Union of Moderate Parties, a francophone political party; Crowby himself is a francophone. In 1997, now representing the National United Party,^[2] he became mayor of Port Vila, the capital city of Vanuatu, a position he held until 2004. He subsequently remained a city councillor until 2006.^[1] Transparency International Vanuatu accused him of "mismanagement and corruption" during his term.^[3]

From 2004 until 2008, he served as the Prime Minister's public relations officer, and government spokesman.^[2] During that same time, he was President of Vanuatu's Broadcasting and Television Corporation, and permanent representative of Vanuatu to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.^[1]

In 2008, he was elected to Parliament,^[1] and was appointed Minister for Internal Affairs in Prime Minister Edward Natapei's Cabinet,^[4] though he was subsequently dismissed during a Cabinet reshuffle. He returned to government in April 2011, when Prime Minister Sato Kilman (who had ousted Natapei in a vote of no confidence in December 2010) was in turn ousted in a vote of no confidence, and succeeded by Serge Vohor. Vohor appointed Crowby Minister for Internal Affairs.^[5] Three weeks later, however, Vohor's election and premiership were voided by the Court of Appeal, and Crowby lost his position in government.^[6]

On 16 June, Kilman's election and premiership were themselves voided by the Supreme Court, on constitutional grounds, and previous Prime Minister Edward Natapei became caretaker Prime Minister until a new leader could be elected. Crowby was restored as caretaker Minister of the Interior.^[7] On 26 June 2011, Sato Kilman was elected Prime Minister by Parliament, and Crowby lost his position in government.^[8]

Crowby later sat as a government backbencher, until 20 March 2013 when he was one of eight MPs to cross the floor and bring down the Kilman government.^[9] New Prime Minister Moana Carcasses Kalosil appointed him to the position of Minister for the Interior three days later.^[10]

Death

He died, aged 55, in New Caledonia on 27 December 2013, several days after having been rushed to hospital there as an unspecified emergency.^[11]

References

1. ^¹²³⁴⁵Biography{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on the website of the New Caledonia government
2. ^¹"Political Reviews: Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events 2005: Vanuatu" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616061705/http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2006/August/tcp-van.htm |date=16 June 2011 }}, Anita Jowitt, The Contemporary Pacific, vol.18, n°2, autumn 2006, pp.430-438
3. ^"TIV congratulates Regenvanu for letter PM" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317080905/http://www.dailypost.vu/index.php?news=3126 |date=17 March 2011 }}, Transparency International Vanuatu, 10 October 2008
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=42133 |title=New Vanuatu PM names his cabinet line-up |date=22 September 2008 |work=Radio New Zealand International |accessdate=2 November 2011}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=60202|title=New look Vanuatu government sworn in|date=25 April 2011|work=Radio New Zealand International|accessdate=2 November 2011}}
6. ^"Vanuatu Court decision results in change of government", ABC Radio Australia, 13 May 2011
7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=61294 |title=Vanuatu interim leader appoints cabinet ministers ahead of prime ministerial vote Thursday |date=20 June 2011 |work=Radio New Zealand International|accessdate=2 November 2011}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=61430|title=Vanuatu’s new PM reinstates cabinet|date=27 June 2011|work=Radio New Zealand International|accessdate=22 September 2011}}
9. ^"Opposition 28, Government 21" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323095440/http://www.dailypost.vu/content/opposition-28-government-21 |date=23 March 2013 }}, Vanuatu Daily Post, 21 March 2013.
10. ^"Nation's interest first: Carcasses" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329020142/http://www.dailypost.vu/content/nations-interest-first-carcasses |date=29 March 2013 }}, Vanuatu Daily Post, 26 March 2013.
11. ^¹"Décès à Nouméa d’une figure francophone de la politique vanuatuane", Tahiti Infos, 27 December 2013