the courts asking for a speedy decision on his request to stay the vote of no confidence because of the urgency of a possible vote of no confidence. The Supreme court decided on 28 May that O'Neill did not have standing because there was at that moment not a vote of no confidence. That moment was in between the first one that was withdrawn due to the lack of numbers and the second one when the opposition had the numbers. The latter was mounted on the same day as the court decision in favour of the opposition. A Vote of No Confidence has to pass through two hurdles to be tabled. First, the Parliamentary Business Committee had to decide whether it is tabled in parliament. That committee was stacked with supporters of O'Neill. The opposition won a motion to bring in supporters of their cause. The support for changes in the Parliamentary Business Committee showed that the opposition had the numbers to be a majority. The Speaker is a second hurdle to be taken. The opposition tried to change the speaker, but he successfully withstood the move. O'Neill avoids then a vote of no confidence by following the suggestion that he had rejected earlier: he resigns and appoints Julius Chan as his successor. Chan first accepted the appointment and retracted this almost immediately in an ambiguous way: he was not interested in the position but would serve the nation in a caretaker position. There was a flurry of arguments whether the selection of Chan was a constitutional possibility. The salient one against Chan was that the government must be formed by the leader of the largest party in parliament and that was PNC, the party of O'Neill. Marape then suddenly returned to PNC along with thirty MPs and joined the government bench.The opposition no longer had the numbers. O'Neill resigned again and handed over to Marape as prime minister, in line with the constitutional requirement that the largest party forms the government. Marape engineered a comeback as candidate MP when he was no longer the alternate PM of the opposition because he lost to Pruaitch as leader of the opposition. Marape was confirmed as prime minister with 101 votes against 8 for Morauta, the most prominent critic of O'Neill. Policies O'Neill embarked on an activist development policy that he contrasted to the stagnation of previous years. He took a substantial