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...support for council legislation before entering Sever 113 for the council’s Sunday evening meetings, Mahan has worked closely with a small circle of council allies, at the expense of his support among the rest of the council. The creation of his so-called “cabinet,” for example, helped effect Mahan’s stated goal of crafting a more professional council—but brought with it a more professional, ruthless opposition...
...MALLEABLE CABINET...
...Abusing the 18-month grace period is like a disease in P.N.G. politics," says Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare. "Those who feel they've missed out always try to maneuver and manipulate others to get something better." In recent weeks, the tides of plot and counter-plot have swept Cabinet ministers into Opposition and Opposition members into government, and raised doubts over who rightly holds the posts of Speaker and Governor- General. There have been legal appeals, claims of intimidation, rowdy scenes in Parliament and armed guards at its gates. What there hasn't been is law-making. "This...
...M.P.s on both sides plotted to replace the government, Opposition leader Sir Mekere Morauta decided to join it. In mid May, saying, "the nation needs stability," he took most of his P.N.G. Party into Somare's 12-party coalition. A week later, Somare sacked seven Cabinet ministers, including four members of the People's National Congress, whose founder, Bill Skate, was Speaker of Parliament - and thus acting Governor-General. "We need a government intact," Somare explained, "a government to continue and complete its term of office...
Until Parliament sits again, on June 29, P.N.G. will be run - as it usually is these days - by Cabinet and the courts. The busiest people in Port Moresby are judges, who are now deciding whether the five-month adjournment of Parliament was constitutional, whether Skate breached the Leadership Code when he quit as acting vice-regent, whether Skate's removal as Speaker was proper, and whether Matane or Sir Pato Kakaraya, the winner of the December vote, should be sworn in as the next Governor-General. Urgent issues like poverty, crime and corruption, a looming aids crisis, decaying infrastructure...