Pangu Pati

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Papua and New Guinea Union Party
Papua na Niugini Yunion Pati
Abbreviation
  • Pangu
  • PNGU
Leader James Marape
PresidentErigere Singin
General SecretaryMorris Tovebae
TreasurerAlbert Mokae
Founded13 June 1967;56 years ago (13 June 1967)
Membership (1968)Increase2.svg 2,000+ [1]
Ideology
Political position Centre to centre-left [5]
Colours  Green
Slogan"Pangu Save Lo Rot" [6] [lower-alpha 1]
National Parliament
58 / 118
(2024) [7]

The Pangu Pati (English: Pangu Party), officially Papua na Niugini Yunion Pati [lower-alpha 2] (English: Papua and New Guinea Union Party), [lower-alpha 3] is a nationalist [5] [3] and developmentalist [3] [4] political party on the centre-left [5] in Papua New Guinea. The party is the oldest political party in Papua New Guinea and has held all levels of government throughout its history. As of 2023, it is the largest party in the National Parliament. [9]

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History

The Pangu Pati was established on 13 June 1967, [10] [1] in order to contest the elections of 1968 (Papua and New Guinea). [1] At the time of its founding, the party stood-out as its ideals were for a political unification of Papua and New Guinea, stronger economic development and to grow the national income. [10] Other parties, such as the United Christian Democratic Party (UCDP), were in favour of Australian statehood. [1] [11] Although the party, and its candidates, were not in a formal political union, there were ten candidates of Pangu that were elected to the House of Assembly. [12] [13] The 1972 election, the last under Australian authority, saw Pangu-endorsed candidates win eighteen seats, with a total of pro-Pangu candidates reaching twenty-six. [14]

Somare later served as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea as the leader of the Pangu Party from 1972 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1985. In 1985, Paias Wingti led a faction of the party to split with Somare, and Wingti won a no-confidence vote against Somare, succeeding him as prime minister. In 1988, Somare was replaced as leader of Pangu by Rabbie Namaliu who served as prime minister from 1988 to 1992. Somare would then become leader of the National Alliance Party.

At the 2002 elections, the party won 6 of 109 seats, under the leadership of Chris Haiveta. After that election, Somare returned to power as prime minister. Pangu became a member of his coalition government, and continued to support the Somare government after the 2007 elections, in which Pangu won 5 seats. [15]

It won only one seat at the 2012 election, that of Angoram MP Ludwig Schulze, but was left unrepresented when Schulze died in March 2013. [16] In August 2014, Deputy Opposition Leader Sam Basil crossed to Pangu and reactivated its parliamentary wing, taking on the leadership. [17] The party's numbers increased to two in August 2015 when William Samb won a by-election in Goilala Open. [18]

Electoral results

National Parliament
ElectionLeaderVotes %Seats+/–Government
1977 Michael Somare —35% (#1)
30 / 109
NewCoalition
1982 No data
51 / 109
Increase2.svg 21Coalition
1987 408,08214.93 (#1)
26 / 109
Decrease2.svg 25Opposition
1992 Rabbie Namaliu 294,7389.33 (#1)
22 / 109
Decrease2.svg 4Opposition
1997 Chris Haiveta 237,0285.31 (#3)
13 / 109
Decrease2.svg 9Opposition
2002 No data
6 / 109
Decrease2.svg 7Opposition
2007
5 / 109
Decrease2.svg 1Coalition
2012 Andrew Kumbakor
1 / 111
Decrease2.svg 4Opposition
2017 Sam Basil 322,0494.08 (#4)
9 / 111
Increase2.svg 8Coalition
2022 James Marape No data
39 / 116
Increase2.svg 29Coalition

Notes

  1. ↑ English: "Pangu knows the way"
  2. ↑ Also spelt "Papua and Niugini Union Pati". [8]
  3. ↑ Also simply known as the "Papua New Guinea Union Party". [3]

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