MORESBY North-East MP Casper Wollom will push for changes to the Constitution that will not allow naturalised citizens to stand for elections.
“If I am in the next government, I will push for changes to the laws that would see that naturalised citizens must not be allowed to stand for elections.
“I will draw the boundary for which foreigners who become naturalised citizens cannot cross,” he said yesterday.
“They are welcomed to do business and engage in other economic and social activities, but not run for National Parliament.
“Politics in PNG cannot be controlled by outsiders, or else we will see problems like we are now seeing in Fiji,” he said.
Mr Wollom made this comments while taking a swipe at Walter Fernandez comments made in The National yesterday, his political opponent and a naturalised citizen, who had a petition disputing Mr Wollom’s election in the 2004 by-election.
Mr Fernandez had complained that the hearing of his petition had been delayed, and wanted the court to deal with it before the issue of writs in May for the coming general election.
The petition, which allege irregularities on the part of election officials in the 2004 poll, was dismissed by the National Court, but was reinstated by the Supreme Court in September 2005.
But Mr Wollom said yesterday Fernandez had in fact abandoned the petition, leading to its dismissal.
“I have spent a lot of money defending this petition. I will ask the court to have him prove that he has the money to run this petition.
“He should respect me and the courts. Criticising the justice system for the delay is unbecoming of a naturalised citizen. This petition is a waste of time anyway, with the elections only three months away,” he said.
 

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