People's Progressive Party (Solomon Islands, 1973)

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The People's Progressive Party (PPP) was a political party in the Solomon Islands.

A political party is an organized group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government. The party agrees on some proposed policies and programmes, with a view to promoting the collective good or furthering their supporters' interests.

Solomon Islands is a sovereign state consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of 28,400 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). The country's capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the North Solomon Islands, but excludes outlying islands, such as Rennell and Bellona, and the Santa Cruz Islands.

It is not to be confused with a new party with that name that took part in the Solomon Islands general election, 2014.

History

Following the 1973 elections, the Governing Council was transformed into the Legislative Assembly and an election was arranged for the position of Chief Minister in 1974. Two parties were formed in 1973 shortly before the elections by MPs; the PPP led by Solomon Mamaloni and the United Solomon Islands Party (USIPA) led by Benedict Kinika.^[1] Mamaloni won the election, becoming the Islands' first Chief Minister and formed a cabinet of both PPP and USIPA members. He resigned in November 1975 after an inquiry into action taken without consulting his cabinet, and when he was re-elected in December he formed a cabinet with five USIPA members, two from the PPP and one independent.^[2]

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References

↑ Decolonising the Solomon Islands: British theory and Melanesian practice Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine . Alfred Deakin Research Institute
↑ Solomon Islands Decolonization, p12
↑ Pacific Perspective, Volume 13, Issue 2
↑ Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific: Laos–Western Samoa, Greenwood Press, p1002

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[ADRI-1] Decolonising the Solomon Islands: British theory and Melanesian practice Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine . Alfred Deakin Research Institute

[2] Solomon Islands Decolonization, p12

[3] Pacific Perspective, Volume 13, Issue 2

[HF-4] Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific: Laos–Western Samoa, Greenwood Press, p1002

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