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While Parliament had no female MPs during the 2017-2022 legislature, two candidates were successful in the 2022 election. The economist Rufina Peter (People's National Congress) was elected MP and Governor of the Central Province; defeating the incumbent, Robert Agarobe (Pangu Pati). [33] Kessy Sawang (People First Party) won the Rai Coast ...
22 July – Prime Minister James Marape's Pangu Pati wins the general election. [4] 10 August – James Marape is re-elected unopposed as Prime Minister by the Parliament after his party Pangu Pati won the general election in July. [5] 8 September – Accession of Charles III as King of Papua New Guinea following the death of Queen Elizabeth II ...
Papua New Guinea elects on the national level a legislature.The National Parliament has 111 members, elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies. [1] Papua New Guinea has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
2022–present Rufina Peter: People's National Congress: Central Provincial: Central: 2022–present Sekie Agisa Pangu Pati: South Fly Open: Western: 2017–present Simon Dumarinu Social Democratic Party: Central Bougainville Open: Bougainville: 2017-present Kinoka Hotune Feo Independent: Unggai-Bena Open: Eastern Highlands: 2022–present ...
Of the 124 members, 102 are elected from "open" seats (increased from 96 in the 2022 elections), [1] with the remainder elected from "provincial" seats based on the twenty provinces, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and the National Capital District. The winners of the provincial seats also become the provincial governor. [3]
Among the reforms was the introduction of the Limited Preferential Vote system (LPV), a modified version of Alternative vote, for future elections in PNG. (The introduction of LPV was partly in response to calls for changes in the voting system by Transparency International and the European Union.) The first general election to use LPV was held ...
In the 2017 national election, 165 women ran for parliament out of a total of 3,000 candidates, or five percent. No women were elected, including the three female incumbents. [ 3 ] However, in the July 2022 national election , for 118 members of parliament, two were elected. [ 4 ]
2015–2022 (dec.) Ginson Saonu: Pangu Party Morobe Provincial: Morobe: 1992–2002, 2017–present Peter Sapia: Melanesian Alliance Party Prior: PNG National Party, Pangu Party. Rai Coast Open: Madang: 2017–present Walter Schnaubelt: National Alliance Party Namatanai Open: New Ireland: 2017–present Ross Seymour: Pangu Party Prior: National ...