Govt will not defer LLG polls again: Marape

Prime Minister James Marape says the government will not defer the Local Level Government elections again.
“Our LLGs are the anchor basis in which we operate from and we give them that recognition and we will not defer from our intention to have the elections conducted,” he said. “We are late by two and a half years. So it’s better late than never.”
He said the Government was trying to work out “how best we could have the law reconciling the fact that we are late by two and half years”.
“We start the life of LLGs from now and also five years from the next election,” he said.
“That could be the way which we run LLG elections – two and a half years from the general election.”
Marape said K33 million had been allocated out of the budgeted K100mil and they would ensure that additional funding would be given to support the election.
“LLG is an important structure of the constitutional democracy.
“They anchor government at the lowest level as well as supporting government at the provincial level.”