Political parties in PNG

POLITICAL parties are groups of people who come together because they share a mutual vision for their community.
These parties can form at local, regional, or national levels.
These groups meet together regularly, create platforms that represent their vision and values, and then send members to run for political office.
Organisation is the primary advantage that a political party provides.
With these parties in place, the politics at any level can be evaluated by each voting member of society to determine if they also share the values of the party.
At the same time, it allows for the best possible candidate to represent a certain set of values or ideas to run for office.
Political parties are not only there to endorse the nominee to contest the national every after five years but, they have multi-task.
They are somewhat deemed to be the driving force of corruption or to curb out corruption in PNG.
Political parties perform an important task in government.
They bring people together to achieve control of the government, develop policies favourable to their interests or the groups that support them, and organise and persuade voters to elect their candidates to office.
Although very much involved in the operation of government at all levels, political parties are not the government itself, and the Constitution makes no mention of them.
The basic purpose of political parties is to nominate candidates for public office and to get as many of them elected as possible.
Once elected, these officials try to achieve the goals of their party through legislation and program initiatives.
Although many people do not think of it this way, registering as a Democrat or Republican makes them members of a political party.
Political parties want as many people involved as possible.
Most members take a fairly passive role, simply voting for their party’s candidates at election time.
Some become more active and work as officials in the party or volunteer to persuade people to vote.
The most ambitious members may decide to run for office themselves.
Even though they work in compliance with their aims and the plate form, still PNG is not developing as in killing corruption.
Corruption now deemed to be another systematic operation.
How can a political part involve in solving corruption?
According to Observation Report by Registrar of Political Parties (2017), the Registry came to realise the challenges faced by political parties in the country are quite extensive and had greatly affected the ability of the political parties to exist as political organisations and to make a difference to the politics of the country.
Some of these challenges include; ineffective party structures, weak party policies and ideologies, personality driven, dominant parliamentary leadership, lack of funding, lack of accountability by party executives to their Members of Parliament, other executives and membership of parties, and failure by parties to recruit membership including women and youths.
“The parties that put up strong campaigns were successful while those that kept quiet and were invisible did not perform well. This may be a lesson for those that formed parties – it is not an easy thing to do and to expect things would come your way without working hard for it. People have to work hard to win seats. On record many political parties failed to do this” (Observation report p.9 2017).
Let it be advised that political parties are there not only for election campaign but to declare war on corruption.
Thus, there must be enough campaign on a daily bases.

Seth S. Punim