Tag: PNG Electoral Commission
Women – just two – back in PNG’s Parliament but more...
ANALYSIS: By Orovu Sepoe, Lesley Clark and Teddy Winn
The results of the 2022...
PNG elections chief Sinai seeks extra extension for Southern Highlands
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai says he will seek a further extension from the Governor-General for the return of writ for...
PNG extends election returns date by two weeks to avoid ‘failed...
Inside PNG News
Papua New Guinea's Governor-General, Sir Bob Dadae, today accepted Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai's recommendation to extend the date for the 2022 general...
Marape first politician re-elected in PNG ballot with landslide win
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Caretaker prime minister James Marape has retained his Tari-Pori seat as the first politician to be...
Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The headline of this editorial, we believe, expresses what every eligible voter, business house and candidate in the nation’s capital feels...
Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing...
By Frank Rai in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea went to the polls yesterday to begin electing the 11th national Parliament only to find out...
Outgoing PNG minister challenges impartiality of officials in demand for fair...
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
The impartiality of officials who have been appointed to manage polling in the National Capital District during the Papua...
Many PNG voters to miss out because Common Roll update ‘ran...
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s Common Roll, important for the voting population in the 2022 National General Elections next month, has...
Any poll delay ‘unconstitutional’, warns former PNG elections chief
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Any deferral of Papua New Guinea's national general election 2022 will be unconstitutional, warns former Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato.
He...
Marape, Electoral Commission say PNG election preps are on track
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's general election will go ahead as planned in June with CCTV (closed circuit television) to monitor...
Only seven governors attend PNG’s covid crisis planning meeting
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
Only seven governors out of Papua New Guinea's 21 provinces and Bougainville attended a meeting in the capital Port...
Former PM Morauta accuses Australia of ‘whitewashing’ PNG poll rigging
By Keith Jackson
Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Mekere Morauta has strongly criticised “foreign governments and organisations”, singling out Australia, for their assessments...
Former chief justice slams Gamato’s ‘premature’ PM election move
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A former Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea, Sir Arnold Amet, today condemned the actions of the beleagured Electoral Commissioner in...
‘Don’t run to courts’ over every PNG electoral row, judge says...
Andrew Thomas reporting from Port Moresby on the issues at stake in this month's general election in Papua New Guinea. Video: Al Jazeera
Pacific Media...
Gary Juffa: Why I was not on the PNG electoral roll...
OPINION: By Gary Juffa, Governor of Oro and a candidate in the PNG general election
Papua New Guinea's incoming government must put a list of...
Gary Juffa: Why these PNG elections are taking us towards dictatorship
OPINION: By Gary Juffa, current Governor of Oro and a candidate in these elections
I suspect that these Papua New Guinea elections have been so...
Lae police chief confirms ‘students’ set fire to PNG ballot papers...
By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Lae Metropolitan Police Superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jnr has confirmed that ballot papers were burnt at...
Chaotic PNG election scene in Moresby with cancelled polling, 4 ‘arrests’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's general election has been rocked with many disruptions, the cancellation of the capital Port Moresby's one-day polling, and...
Under fire PNG elections chief vows he will not resign
Papua New Guinea's under fire Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato says he will not step down and will continue to ensure the general election is...
‘It’s like a bad dream coming back,’ says Parkop on Moresby...
By Gloria Bauai in Port Moresby
Is history repeating itself for the Moresby North West electorate in the Papua New Guinean general election?
In 2012, polling...
PNG election officials face big ‘one day’ voting challenge in capital
One-day polling for Post Moresby residents takes place today. Video: EMTV News
By Eric Haurupma in Port Moresby
With Papua New Guinea's National Capital District (NCD)...