Roger Tom Abiut is a politician from Vanuatu

Vanuatu

Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...

. He is a former speaker of parliament of that country and, in that capacity, served as acting President twice.

Abiut is a member of the Vanuatu Labour Party

Vanuatu Labour Party

The Vanuatu Labour Party is a political party in Vanuatu. The party was established on June 3, 1987. It was founded on the initiative of various trade union organizations in order to contest the 1987 parliamentary election...

. After becoming the Speaker of Parliament in 2003, he became acting president on March 24, 2004, when the five-year term of President John Bani

John Bani

Father John Bennett Bani was the president and head of state of Vanuatu from 25 March 1999 until March 24, 2004.He resigned in 2004.He is an Anglican priest from Pentecost Island....

 expired. He served in that position until April 12, when a new president, Alfred Maseng

Alfred Maseng

Alfred Maseng Nalo was a politician from Vanuatu. He served as foreign minister of Vanuatu from 1995 until 1996. He was also the president of Vanuatu for two brief periods lasting about a month each, during 1994 and 2004....

was elected by the parliament and the presidents of the regional councils. Maseng was removed as president on May 11, 2004, and Abiut became acting president again.
Abiut lost his seat in Parliament shortly after, in the parliamentary elections of July 7, 2004, and therefore lost his positions as speaker of parliament and acting President on July 28, 2004, at the first session of Parliament. The Vanuatu Labor Party no longer has any representatives in Parliament.