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The Social Democratic Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea.It was founded in June 2010 by Port Moresby Governor Powes Parkop. [2]It won three seats at the 2012 election: Parkop (National Capital District Provincial), Justin Tkatchenko (Moresby South Open) and Joseph Yopyyopy (Wosera-Gawi).
6–9 September – Pope Francis conducts the first papal visit to Papua New Guinea since 1995. [12]12 September – Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape survives a vote of no confidence in the National Parliament.
Office Post-nominal Papua New Guinea Honours System: Cross of Valour: CV Grand Companion of the Order of Logohu: GCL Companion of the Order of the Star of Melanesia: CSM Commander of the Order of Logohu
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.
The 124 members of the National Parliament are elected from single-member constituencies by limited instant-runoff voting; voters are given up to three preferences, with a candidate declared elected once they received over 50% of preference votes. [2]
Each provincial member becomes governor of their province unless they take a ministerial position, in which case the governorship passes to an open member of the province. [4] From 1964 until 1977 an Optional Preferential Voting System was used. [citation needed] The first past the post system was used from 1977 until 2002.
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However, if a provincial member accepts a position as a cabinet minister, the role of governor falls to one of the Open members of Parliament from the province. As of 1 February 2019, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries in the world out of 235 that had no women in its legislative branch or parliament. [ 1 ]