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Vanuatu to be part of MSG team to observe PNG election

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Elections officials from Vanuatu, Fiji and Solomon Islands will be part of a team of observers from the Melanesian Spearhead Group to the Papua New Guinea election next month.

Martin Tete will represent Vanuatu on the team.

A former Solomon Islands prime minister, Sir Francis Billy Hilly will lead the observer team.

Other members are former Fiji president, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, and Phillipe Ajapunya a member of the political bureau of the FLNKS in New Caledonia.

The MSG was invited to send a team at the invitation of the PNG government.

Polling is scheduled to begin June 24 and end on July 8.

The PNG Electoral Commission says a total of 3332 candidates have nominated to contest the 2017 election, based on official figures from each province.

Loop PNG reports that printing of candidates posters have begun.

     


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