Party hits out at sacking

FREEDOM Party general secretary John Endemongo has criticised the manner in which two senior members of the Coalition Government were sacked from cabinet.
He said that during the signing of a joint communiqué by political parties on the Alotau Accord and Organic Law on Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates last Saturday.
Signatories of the communiqué criticised the manner in which Prime Minister Peter O’Neill sacked his Alotau Accord partners Don Polye of the Triumph Heritage Empowerment (THE) Party and William Duma of the United Resources Party.
No comments could be obtained from O’Neill.
“The Prime Minister of this country has lost control,” Endemongosaid.
“What we see now is a dominant political party that’s cannibalising other parties, which is unconstitutional.”
Endemongo said the OLIPPAC clarified that if a political party had a majority number of MPs, it was invited by the Governor-General to form the Government.
“In the last elections, the major party was PNCwhich had only one-fifth of the 111 MPs,” he said.
“It was totally reliant on coalition partners to form a government.It never had the mandate of the people of this country.
Endemongo appealed to MPs of THE Party and URP to move out of government with Polye and Duma.
“Whichever MP was elected while a member of thatparty stays a member of that party,” he said.