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papua new guinea**

H.E. Patilias Gamato, ML
Electoral Commissioner, PNGEC

part i part ii

CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Official Name LEGISLATURE
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
1. Structure of National Legislature
2. Government Unicameral
Parliamentary Democracy (National
Parliament) Under A Constitutional Monarchy; A 2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
Commonwealth Realm National Parliament

3. Head of the State Designation 3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
Queen Elizabeth II nominated

4. Head of the Government Designation 111 members are elected in the National
Prime Minister James Marape Parliament
5. Capital 4. Popular House
Port Moresby National Parliament
6. Currency 5. Type of Electoral System
Papua New Guinean kina
Instant-runoff voting (IRV)
7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population)
Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, part iii
Polynesian ELECtorAL sYstEM
8. Date of Independence and from which Country
16 September 1975 (from the Australia- (A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy
administered UN trusteeship)
1. Name of the EMB(S)
9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution Electoral Commission (PNGEC)
16 September 1975
10. Language (s) 2. Website Address
TokPisin (official), English (official), HiriMotu www.pngec.gov.pg/
(official), some 839 indigenous languages spoken
(about 12% of the world’s total); many languages 3. Nature of EMB
have fewer than 1,000 speakers Independent
11. Literacy Levels 4. No. of Members in EMB
63.4 % 1

AU-5U-3 299 **Draft. EMB has been requested to update the draft. Response awaited.
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