People's National Congress Party (Papua New Guinea)
|
People's National Congress
|
|
|---|---|
_Logo.png){kind=logo} |
|
| Leader | Peter O'Neill |
| President | Garret Kissing |
| Secretary | Eddie Mike Jondi |
| Founded | 1993 |
| National Parliament |
54 / 111
|
| Website | |
| pncpng.com | |
The People's National Congress is a political party in Papua New Guinea. Its former leader Bill Skate served as Prime Minister from 1997 to 1999 and as speaker of Parliament from 2002 to 2004. Skate died in 2006 and the party is now led by Peter O'Neill. PNC originated from the National Capital District where former leader (late Bill Skate) was the Governor of NCD and the Parliamentary Member. The party had 52 members in the 111-seat National Parliament of Papua New Guinea as of November 2016.
The party was founded in 1993. It merged with the Christian Country Party and a number of smaller parties in April 1998 to form the PNG First Party, but split in June 1999 into a revived People's National Congress and a revived National Party.
At the National General elections of 2002, the party won 2 of 109 seats. At the 2007 election, the party won 4 seats. It became a member of the coalition government led by Michael Somare's National Alliance, and received two cabinet positions.
Following that on August 2, 2011, nine years after holding the position of Prime Minister, the National Alliance coalition government led by Michael Somare was superseded by the PNC Party led Peter O'Neill coalition alongside PNG Party Leader Belden Namah, and Parliament Speaker Jeffery Nape, who was responsible for determining that the office of the Prime Minister was vacant in the Papua New Guinean Constitutional Crisis.
...
Wikipedia