Prime Minister James Marape, who is also the Leader of Papua New Guinea's Founding Political Party- Pangu Pati, is ready to vacate the party leadership and let the party members to decide on the best candidate to take lead.
He made this announcement last week Friday, during Pangu’s two days Convention held at the Hilton Hotel in Port Moresby, as he left the meeting to take up his Sabbath rest.
Marape said, the Party’s President and General Secretary together with him as the leader are leaving the party convention to decide on the leadership, as part of the due process and requirement of the party’s constitution.
“With a lot of negativities in the public space and if you feel there’s a better person to take over from me, then, I let it be. I will be a team player as a Pangu, all the way through for the rest of my life,’ said Prime Minister.
He added that, as part of the party’s reform, he has inserted a clause in the party’s constitution that a leader has no automatic right for continuity should his or her term is up as party leader. And it is always up to the party convention to decide.
This is a mature system that I’ve helped set up for the party now, and I hope going forward the party has a policy that is independently and organically funneled through,” he said.
Marape also added that the two-day convention was also about confirming the party’s policies to take to the 2027 National General Election, as well as their policies for the next phase. These are all based on Pangu’s Ministers and Members report on their achievements, to go through to the Presidents Report.
Based on these reports the President then takes the Report to the Council Meeting where the set policies will be announced to take to the next election (2027 NGE) and beyond.
“There’s a lot of things happening in Pangu Pati and I am happy with the outcome of the meetings. Although I left as they were going through the meeting’s resolution, I should indicate to all on the final outcome of the meeting on Monday afternoon,” said Marape.
Prime Minister also spoke about the announcements of a few exciting new policies that really indicate a clear growth happening, whilst admitting that there are still many outstanding works that remain.
