Forming new govt

WHAT can we say?
PNG is known as the land of the unexpected.
Things can happen without anyone expecting it to happen, none more so than in the political arena as we have seen in the past couple of weeks or so.
Members of Parliament previously seen as unmovable from the current government have suddenly defected to the other side for various reasons.
Whatever transpires from now on until the day of the actual vote can be anyone’s guess.
Expect more unexpected movements; announcements; deals and marriages of political convenience to continue.
This rather, sudden happenings of late, which many of us did not foresee it coming or thought of it even happening in the last few months has shaken the pillars of the house and within the nation’s capital, to say the least.
It has caused the demise of one political party.
The party that is synonymous with the political history of this country and rejuvenated another pioneer in the MA.
What happens to Pangu Pati from here on is for the leaders of the party to decide, probably with the backing of its longtime supporters.
On the other hand, and sadly, for the supporters of the party, they do not have a parliamentary leader after the defection of Sam Basil and his team.
In his skipping and hopping from one party to another Basil has completely forgotten what he stood for in the last election.
He and his team of former Pangu Pati members have joined a party which never look like happening a day earlier. This was clearly a marriage of political convenience and survival for Basil and his group.
PNG may just have witnessed the most strangest and biggest political movement that had taken place post-independence 1975.
With both factions expression total confidence of forming the next government if there is a VONC the whole country is now getting into the mode of another major political event in this country’s short political history.
As they say, let the powers that be decide on who should form the next government.

Seko Sisiwan
NCD