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The National Alliance Party (NAP) won 15 seats; the United Resources Party (URP) secured ten seats whilst the Pangu Pati won nine. The People's Progress Party and the Papua New Guinea Party won five seats each, the Triumph Heritage Empowerment Rural Party secured four seats, whilst the National Party won three seats.
Electoral system. 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] Of the 124 members, 102 are elected from "open" seats (increased from 96 in ...
Speaker. Job Pomat, Pangu. since 2 August 2017. Prime Minister. James Marape, Pangu. since 30 May 2019. Leader of the Opposition. Joseph Lelang, PNC [2] since 12 August 2022.
v. t. e. 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 ...
4 July – 2022 Papua New Guinean general election: Papua New Guineans go to the polls to elect their new government in a heavily guarded election. [3] 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 ...
Rufina Peter is a Papua New Guinean agricultural economist and politician. Until her election to the National Parliament on 5 August 2022, Papua New Guinea (PNG) was one of only three countries without a woman in parliament. [ 1] She was also elected as Governor of Central Province in the 2022 general election, becoming the province's first ...
The politics of Papua New Guinea takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic multi-party system, whereby the prime minister is the head of government. Papua New Guinea is an independent Commonwealth realm, with the monarch serving as head of state and a governor-general, nominated by the National Parliament, serving ...
Education. University of Papua New Guinea. Profession. Tax specialist. Kessy Sawang is a Papua New Guinean politician and former senior civil servant. Until her election and that of Rufina Peter to the National Parliament in August 2022, Papua New Guinea (PNG) had been one of only three countries without a woman in parliament. [ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4]