People's Action Party (Papua New Guinea)

The People's Action Party is a right-of-centre political party in Papua New Guinea.

People's Action Party
President	Mark Sarong [1]
Secretary	Simon Bole [1]
Founder	Ted Diro
Founded	1987
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It was founded prior to the 1987 election by former Opposition Leader Ted Diro.[2]

At the 2002 election, the party won 5 out of 109 seats in total (with 5% of the vote in total). At the 2007 election, the party won 6 seats. It supported the government of Prime Minister Michael Somare.

In October 2011, four PAP MPs, including then-leader Gabriel Kapris, defected to the Papua New Guinea Party.[3] The party won no seats at the 2012 election.[4] In July 2012, the party was reported to have "disintegrated" following the Kapris defection.[5]

The party has not received any media coverage since 2012; however, it had registered to contest the 2017 election.[6]

References

1. "REGISTRY OF POLITICAL PARTIES" (PDF). Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
2. ANU ePress (2008). Political Parties in the Pacific Islands.
3. "PNG Party gets new members". PNG Post Courier. 4 October 2011.
4. "NATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2012". PNG Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
5. "Who is responsible?". PNG Post Courier. 30 July 2012.
6. "Total number of parties 34: Gelu". The National. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.