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Politics List of Categories
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- Who was the politician behind the biggest, reported election bribe in PNG?
- What are the main politcal parties in PNG?
- Who are the leaders of the main politcal parties in PNG?
- How many members of parliament does PNG have?
- In total, how many representatives does the constitution allow in Parliament?
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- Who was the politician behind the biggest, reported election bribe in PNG?
The late Sir Iambakey Okuk. He supposedly distributed 92,000 bottles of beer in 1982 before the elections.
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- What are the main politcal parties in PNG?
Prior to the 2002 elections the following parties could be considered to be the main parties.
National Alliance (NA)
National Party (NP)
PNG United Party (PANGU)
People's Action Party (PAP)
Peoples Democractic Movement (PDM)
People's National Congress (PNC)
People's Progress Party (PPP)
People's United Party (PUP)
United Party (UP)
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- Who are the leaders of the main politcal parties in PNG?
Prior to the 2002 elections the following people could be considered to be leaders of the main parties.
Michael Somare -- National Alliance (NA)
Michael Mell -- National Party (NP)
Chris Haiveta -- PNG United Party (PANGU)
Ted Diro -- People's Action Party (PAP)
Mekere Morauta -- Peoples Democractic Movement (PDM)
Simon Kaumi -- People's National Congress (PNC)
Michaelk Nali -- People's Progress Party (PPP)
Alfred Kaiiiabe -- People's United Party (PUP)
Rimbink Pato -- United Party (UP)
but anyone knowing PNG politics will understand that this changes on a regular basis often with more than one person claiming leadership of a party. Sometimes one "leader" is in Government and the other is in the Opposition.
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- How many members of parliament does PNG have?
Currently the PNG poulation has a total of 109 representatives in parliament. The constitution allows for a total of 120 which was when the country only had a population of 3 million. The constition allows for an electorate for every 35,000 people and some of the electorates have double this populaton since the constituion was written.
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- In total, how many representatives does the constitution allow in Parliament?
The constitution allows for a total of 120 which was when the country only had a population of 3 million. The constitution allows for an electorate for every 35,000 people and some of the electorates have double this populaton since the constituion was written.
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Please note that this is not "Ask Jeeves" - you cannot type a whole sentence as your query. Enter a word, a phrase, or several words and press search.
Please remember that this is a FAQ database about Papua New Guinea.
Doing a search for PNG or New Guinea or even P.N.G will probably not return much. Keep the search simple. i.e. if you want to find out the population simply enter "population" without the quotes. There is no need to have PNG / P.N.G or whatever in the search string.
