Deadlock continues in Nauru parliament
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Nauru's deadlocked parliament is set to resume today.
However, as Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney reports, there is still no indication the parliament will be able to function.
Following sittings on Friday and Saturday, the speaker - opposition MP David Adeang - accused President Marcus Stephen of trying to stage a parliamentary coup, after he stopped police from removing two government MPs from the house.
Mr Adeang had called for Foreign Minister Dr Keiran Keke and Commerce Minister Frederick Pitcher to be removed due to their dual Nauru-Australian citizenship.
New rules banning any MP with dual citizenship from entering the house were passed during an Easter Saturday sitting of parliament only attended by opposition members.
The Nauru government has challenged the new rules in the Supreme Court.
Both the government and opposition have indicated that fresh elections, less than nine months after the last national poll, are the only way to resolve the deadlock.
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