Leaders for the people by the people

DEMOCRACY is about “development for people and by the people”, in any country that has adopted a Westminster system of Government.
Papua New Guinea has adopted the Westminster system of government since independence in 1975.
Essentially, economic and social development must be determined by the people.
They will then choose the kind of leadership required to achieve them.
Leadership is about solving future problems, issues and challenges now.
It is required to solve the social and economic development problems, issues and challenges the people are facing.
In PNG, political leadership and institutional failures since independence have seriously undermined development in PNG.
The male dominated system of politics and male dominated bureaucracy in the national, provincial and local level governments have all failed the aspiration of social and economic development the people of PNG wanted.
Sadly, the country is faced with serious environmental pollution, deterioration in transport and institutional infrastructure, unreliable and expensive power supply, influx of counterfeit goods, loss of domestic industries and firms, loss of intellectual property rights, loss of tax revenues and foreign exchange, a ballooning national debt, poor development indicators, lack of access to markets and financial products and services, escalating social problems, and loss of national security and sovereignty.
These show that politics and Government bureaucracy have truly failed the people of PNG.
To change and reverse this downward trend of social and economic development, requires a major overhaul of the political and institutional structures and the national Constitution of PNG.
It starts with a major political shift now.
The people of PNG must vote true future women leaders in the 2022 national elections, to start with.
It will start the long process of the major overhaul needed to promote real and tangible economic and social development for the benefit of the people of this country.

Concerned Economist