Pangu still leads with 9 seats, PNC 5

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Pangu still leads with 9 seats, PNC 5

PORT MORESBY: The ruling Pangu Pati is still leading with nine seats followed by People’s National Congress with five.

And National Research Institute research fellow Dr Thomas Webster has described Papua New Guinea’s General Election 2022 (GE22) as worse than the ones in 2012 and 2017.

“We come to a stage where if we do not fix the electoral system, and there is no groundswell of thinking and voices raised from all over the community nationwide, the next GE in 2027 will be worse,” he added.

PNG Cyber Monitor reproduces below the news break and the current confirmed list of GE22 winners compiled by The National:




Fix poll system: Webster

The NationalMain Stories

NATIONAL Research Institute (NRI) research fellow Dr Thomas Webster has described General Election 2022 (GE22) as worse than the ones in 2012 and 2017.

“We come to a stage where if do not fix the electoral system, and there is groundswell of thinking and voices raised from all over the community nationwide, the next election in 2027 would be worse,” he said.
“It will be worse and there will be chaos everywhere because I don’t think the PNG Defence Force, police and other security forces would be able to control and contain the kind of violence that can erupt.”
He said there was fraud in the current Government administrative systems in the provision of initiatives for people to become MPs.
“Not only initiatives with millions of kina for the parliamentarians to access, but there are also the communities where their livelihoods are dependent on the electoral process,” he said.
Institute of National Affairs executive director Paul Barker pointed out that cheating and abuse of rules were common during national elections.
Barker said it had resulted in some individuals voting multiple times, moving on to another polling station or even constituency to cast votes for their clansman or presumably for some reward.
Former Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said the hijacking of ballot boxes, election rigging and election officials being compromised were not the right processes to select national leaders.
O’Neill had said the outcomes did not represent the wishes of the people.
He urged Police Commissioner David Manning and Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai to be independent in discharging their duties.
“Our democracy is under threat and leaders who are elected properly, according to the wish of the people, need to stand strong to protect our country and people,” O’Neill said.
“Having elections in Hela before the rest of the country, where the conduct of the General Election (2022) has been chaotic.
“Election fraud in that province has set the standard and pace of which other provinces are now starting to adapt.
Prime Minister James Marape in a statement over the weekend said Pangu Party “is not rigging the elections as claimed by disgruntled candidates and supporters”.
He added that if Pangu had rigged the elections, it would have made a clean-sweep of all 118 seats.

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