Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission

Candidates for the Southern Highlands Provincial seat and their supporters have been warned not to continue disrupting and delaying the counting process. Electoral Commissioner's Delegate and Deputy Commissioner Corporate Services John Kalamoroh warned that perpetrators risk being held for contempt of court and arrested.

Constitutional and Law Reform Commission (CLRC) chairman Robert Atiyafa wants electronic votingto be introduced in the 2022 national election.

The Waigani National Court on Monday (4 September, 2017) this week ordered that 84 disputed ballot boxes for Southern Highlands Provincial Seat locked in the provincial capital Mendi to be admitted for counting.

The historical Bougainville Charter has been signed by the Governor General Sir Bob Dadae today (30 August, 2017) at Government House in Konedobu to fast-track preparations for the conduct of the Bougainville Referendum in June 2019.

Writ for the Kundiawa-Gembogl Open electorate was finally returned to the Electoral Commissioner this afternoon after a month due to lawlessness in the electorate disputing the results coupled with legal challenges by the incumbent Tobias Kulang in the National and Supreme Courts.

Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato clarified today that the Returning Officer who declared Nick Kuman as Member-elect for Gumine Open electorate in Chimbu and signed the writ was Fredy Yaun and not the late Peter Kalpe.