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Political party in Vanuatu
Melanesian Progressive Party
LeaderEsmon Saimon
FounderBarak Sopé
Founded1988
IdeologySocial democracy
Autonomism
Environmentalism
Political positionCentre-left
Parliament1 / 52
Politics of Vanuatu

The Melanesian Progressive Party is a political party in Vanuatu formed after an internal leadership struggle within the Vanua'aku Pati in the late 1980s. MPP founder, former Prime Minister Barak Sopé, was at that point the secretary general of the VP, and the struggle, as well as his expulsion from the VP and the Parliament for taking part in a protest against the government’s decision to close the Urban Land Corporation (ULC) in April 1988, resulted in him forming the MPP. The party's program is relatively similar to the VP. Despite its small number of seats it has been important in setting up coalition governments since the 1990s.

At the election held on 30 October 2012, the party won 2 out of 52 seats; it lost one of these in the 2016 election.

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