National Front Party (Papua New Guinea)

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The National Front Party was a political party in Papua New Guinea.

A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda.

Papua New Guinea Constitutional monarchy in Oceania

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. It is the world's 3rd largest island country with 462,840 km2 (178,700 sq mi).

The party was established in 2002 by Kundiawa-Gembolg MP and former Minister for Defence Peter Waieng. [1] [2] Waeing subsequently resigned his seat due to pending misconduct proceedings against him, but contested and lost the seat at the election. The party won no other seats. [3] [4] [5]

Peter G. Waieng was a Papua New Guinea politician. Waieng served as a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea, representing the Kundiawa-Gembogl constituency, from 1997 to 2002. Waieng also served as the Minister of Defence within the Prime Minister's cabinet as a member of parliament.

The party endorsed one candidate at the 2007 election, and won no seats. [6] At the time of the 2012 election, the party was led by Philip Kende. [7]

2007 Papua New Guinean general election elections

General elections were held in Papua New Guinea from 30 June 2007 to 14 July 2007.

2012 Papua New Guinean general election elections

A general election was held in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from 23 June to about 13 July 2012, after being postponed by a further week, due to allowing for security personnel to criss-cross the country, particularly the highland provinces. The election also followed controversy over incomplete electoral rolls and the 2011–2012 Papua New Guinean constitutional crisis between the disputed prime ministers of Sir Michael Somare and Peter O'Neill.

It was deregistered in 2015. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Front Party registers for elections in Papua New Guinea". The National. 22 March 2002.
  2. ↑ "Former pilot banking on youth votes". PNG Post Courier. 30 May 2002.
  3. ↑ "MPs on trial today". PNG Post Courier. 13 May 2002.
  4. ↑ "Waieng a determined man". PNG Post Courier. 29 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "NATIONAL ELECTION 2002". PNG Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 14 October 2002. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Gelu, Alphonse. "9. Political Parties and the 2007 National Election: Alignment to Reform?" (PDF). Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "Parties". PNG Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates Commission. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  8. ↑ "Political parties cancelled". PNG Post Courier. 20 August 2015.


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