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This rivals Gator's Friday Funnies.
From what I can see, the Opposition can count on 6 no confidence votes.
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One pays to have your story posted in The National. Who paid for this story ???I can't speak to numbers but appears to be more politics .
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National not only one reporting it. Polye and others addressed Parliament last week ahead of tomorrow's reconvening of Parliament. They need 56 votes to pull off the vote of no-confidence and supposedly there have been 19 confirmed by those outside the Opposition; a good ways to go possibly depending on who else might join. At one time those staunchly with the Opposition was only 5 or 6, so something is going on.
"The Papua New Guinea Opposition claims that they have the numbers to oust Prime Minister Peter O’Neill through a motion of vote of no-confidence this Parliament session.
The Opposition, led by Opposition leader Don Polye, PNG Party leader Belden Namah, Pangu Party leader Sam Basil, Goilala MP William Samb, and Lagaip-Porgera MP Nixon Mangape said during a news conference at the Parliament House that they were confident of successfully removing O’Neill when Parliament resumes on Tuesday next week.
Rabaul MP Dr Allan Marat sent his apologies as he was still in the province.
Speaking during the media conference, Polye said the main reasons for the Opposition to bring up a motion of vote of no-confidence against the leadership of the Prime Minister are:
*That the Prime Minister has continuously violated the laws, including the Constitutions and for deliberately breaching the processes and procedures;
*That the Prime Minister has no respect for the check and balance and good governance systems and institutions, and compromising with the court system and the police;
*That the Prime Minister has interfered with the constitutional offices and their officers to terminate and suspend constitutional office holders to serve his own interest; and
*For poorly managing the country’s economy with a drop in the growth and a increased debt ratio, and the people and members of Parliament do not have confidence in his leadership.
Although the Opposition would not reveal the number of MPs it has, it is understood that they have confirmed 15 members of the Opposition while another four from the Government ranks are also with them.
However, the Opposition must muster the support of more than 56 members of Parliament in order to defeat the Prime Minister and his Government.
Under normal procedures, after the Opposition presents the notice of a vote of no-confidence motion, the Speaker will then forward it to the parliamentary committee for vetting before it comes back to the floor."
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Using the numbers in the article 19 confirmed outside and 6 in the opposition the new math says that's 25 with 56 required or 31 short . Big reported spread .
To think the countries GDP growth and budget projections adherence could continue with the drop in LNG revenue due to the drop in the price of oil would be naive . One question is did they react to LNG revenue changes as quickly as prudence would require?? We don't have information to properly judge these things .
Yes it will be curious to see the vote numbers if it gets that far .
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Just something to keep an eye on. Will start hearing about it within next couple of days. Still don't think it should have much/any affect on Papua LNG.
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Agree Palm they need the revenue.
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A shortage of revenue from PNG LNG is probably the problem
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A shortage of revenue is part of it. The main problem is that the full revenue including the LO portion is going to a fund in Singapore (I believe that's where it is) to be used to pay the debt on the UBS loan that the gov took out to buy the shares of OSH.
Before that purchase of OSH the gov portion of LNG proceeds were to go to the SWF so that it could be used for necessary infrastructure and social programs promised by O'Neill during his campaign. The LO portion was to go to whatever fund(s) to be distributed to the locals.
O'Neill has never really given a good sovereign reason for why it was wise to buy the OSH shares other than, "People were saying the government should own higher %s of resource projects." Well yes but that was in the context of being in the normal context of buying directly into a project, not indirectly through ownership in a company, like OSH.
He's legitimately in some hot water like politicians tend to be.
