TWO more opposition MPs have been suspended from the Nauru parliament amid claims the government is trying to avoid scrutiny of a budget that contains Australian funding for asylum seekers.
The government of President Baron Waqa is expected to hand down its budget on Thursday.
Three opposition MPs were banned from parliament in May amid chaotic scenes that included a police stand-off.
Another two - former president Sprent Dabwido and Squire Jeremiah - were suspended on Thursday for behaving in an "unruly manner".
The pair had opposed the earlier suspensions of Roland Kun, former foreign minister Kieren Keke and Mathew Batsiua.
That trio had been booted from parliament for talking to foreign journalists and criticising the government's decision to expel the country's chief justice, Australian Geoffrey Eames, and the dismissal of its only magistrate, Peter Law, another Australian.
Only three non-government MPs are left in the parliament, facing 11 from the government.
"The whole thing has gone pear-shaped," Mr Kun told AAP from New Zealand.
"We're pleading for the Speaker to save the legislature because the government has already killed the judiciary."
The opposition is unable to seek a Supreme Court ruling because no chief justice has been appointed to replace Mr Eames.
Mr Kun believes the second lot of suspensions is connected to the budget's timing.
"There are numerous holes in the budget but we can't put a finger on them until they actually present the paperwork," he said.
Australia provides a considerable part of the government's budget, which it uses to run an immigration detention centre and resettlement program.
So far Nauru has resettled 41 refugees on a temporary basis until a third country, expected to be Cambodia, agrees to a deal with Australia.
The detention centre accommodates more than 1100 asylum seekers.
Opposition MPs are concerned that funding for healthcare, education, transport and utilities is going backwards.
Mr Kun believes money has been diverted to a fund used to pay cash bonuses to "selected individuals".
If the budget passed on Thursday, parliament might not sit again until 2015, he said.
Comment has been sought from the Nauru government.
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