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Why not Juffa?

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By PNG Echo Don Polye, the Engan warlord, whose election result has been set aside on more than one occasion for suspected and proven tampering (including the most recent one), who is implicated in many corruption scandals including (but not only) the unresolved Paraka case, who has been rejected and sidelined by every government he’s served under, not least of all for incompetence, has been named as the alternative Prime Minister. Is this the best the Opposition can do? I’ve maintained (and am unlikely to resile from the position) that the Opposition is not a fit outfit to run a Continue reading Why not Juffa?→

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The Rejects’ Shop – aka: the Opposition

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By PNG Echo In most western democracies – certainly ones with a two-party system – the Opposition opposes the Government primarily on political ideology. That ideology provides the guiding principles for their policies. In Papua New Guinea that has a 40-something-party (and goodness knows how many independents) system, the leading political ideology is self-serving pragmatism with a nod to expediency – so what exactly does the Opposition oppose? The raison d’être In the main, they are in Opposition because the Government doesn’t want them. In fact, the Opposition ranks (and they are meagre) consist of the rejected, swelled by the Continue reading The Rejects’ Shop – aka: the Opposition→

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