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  by  FRASER LIU The Supreme Court did something in the case between the Speaker and PO that is quite unusual. It requested compromise and agreement from both parties on the key issue before it which is the Parliament sitting dates. It asked exactly the same thing last week, but since no agreement was forthcoming, it moved the case to Monday this week. When it sat on Monday it went through the preliminaries in an unusually rapid pace. It almost looked as if a decision would be made that same day on the substantive matter! The Chief Justice made no attempt to conceal the urgency of the case, saying "December 1st is tomorrow and only hours away." Finally, when the SC granted standing to PO, it paused before going into the substantive hearing. The High Court then heard the plea by the Speaker's lawyers who said they were not ready to present their case. The way the Supreme Court had handled proceedings that day, one would not have been surprised if they ordered the lawyers t

by PAUL AMATIO When the Supreme Court made a decision that the election of JM as PM was legal, people said it was a victory for him. I see it as a victory for the Rule of Law, the Constitution and Parliament. My view of that ruling is that essentially any breach of laws governing parliamentary operations are for the SC to deal with as Constitution Law matters. Any breaches of procedure are for Parliament to rectify. That being said, on the 13 Nov, the whole parliament agreed to reconvene on 01 Dec without dissent or objection. That is a fact and indisputable. Why no one in Loloata objected is up to them to explain when the motion to adjourn was tabled and they had all the standing to do so. Surely a point of order could have been raised about the correctness of that given that the Standing Orders are clear on it. But they didn’t and that is now history. So the will of parliament was made clear that it will reconvene at the date it has determined (by majority vote) at that meeting of p

By David Kawage Bitno   The Supreme Court challenge of the legality surrounding the election of PM James Marabe and the Speaker’s adjournment of Vote of No Confidence (VONC) to April 28, 2021 is a determined attempt to make PM Marabe’s post vacant.   The nation’s political mayhem has gone on for a fortnight, but little or even nothing is known of the Prime Minister's contention for the Vanimo Opposition Camp.   In this period of MPs swapping allegiance to and fro, there are four prominent dynamics that will considerably impact the outcome of a new government; 1.        Bougainville Road to Independence 2.        Corona Virus in Loloata Government Camp 3.        No nomination of alternate Prime Minister in the Opposition 4.        The Warrant of Arrest to be effected on 12 MPs in Opposition Camp Let us gaze at each of them more narrowly to unearth the under current political repercussions. 1.         Bougainville Road to Independence The road to Independence for Bougainville is not

by MCDONALD MOTA In his poorly crafted last-ditch effort to save James Marape, Bryan Kramer is totally out of control. Bryan Kramer now faces a harsh reality if Marape is defeated by the courts or Parliament. Job Pomat is a weak MP, who out of greed has siphoned a lot of funds from Parliament to his own use. He has actually misused millions of kina and now under immense pressure from being arrested and prosecuted. Bryan Kramer is therefore taking advantage and blackmailing Job Pomat to go against the opposition MPs. Job Pomat reckons that going against Kramer is a fatal choice so he already recalled the parliament against a legitimate adjournment. The same Job Pomat is now required to chair the December 1st Parliament sitting. What has now transpired is that Bryan Kramer has asked him to go to Madang and personally showed Job Pomat his criminal files. This was deliberately done to force him to agree on a strategy. Speaker Job Pomat will need to create something in order for the 1st of

by ALOIS JEREWAI Our Parliamentarians now desperately want the Supreme Court to legitimise their respective factions' actions on the floor of the Parliament. Depending on which faction each MP is part of, the Parliament is now the MOST DESIRED or the MOST UNDESIRED place to be! IS THIS THE DESIRED PRACTICE, WHEN THE PARLIAMENT, AS A THIRD EQUAL ARM OF OUR WESTMINISTER TYPE GOVERNMENT, HAS ITS OWN PROCEDURES PROVIDED UNDER ITS STANDING ORDERS AND PARLIAMENTARY POWERS AND PRIVILEGES ACT, TO DEAL WITH THE CURRENT CONFLICT RELATING TO THE ADJOURNMENT AND THE NEXT MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT? The answer simply is NO. The Speaker of the Parliament ought now treat this issue as a matter of grave public importance and immediately RE-CONVENE AN EMERGENCY MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT to resolve this issue in accordance with the Standing Orders as bestowed on him under Section 108 (1) of our Constitution. According to this provision the Speaker is responsible for upholding the dignity of the Parl

GOVERNMENT SOURCES Bryan Kramer acting for the Minority Government has already set in motion moves to undermine the legal processes set out to fix the Marape government's undemocratic parliamentary recalling. Police Minister Bryan Kramer has orchestrated strategies to suppress Opposition Government MPs from exercising democratic parliamentary rights in nation's decision making. 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑦 𝑂𝑛𝑒 - 𝐶𝑂𝑅𝑂𝑁𝐴 𝑉𝐼𝑅𝑈𝑆 𝐼𝑁 𝐿𝑂𝐿𝑂𝐴𝑇𝐴 25th Nov has seen released into the media, news briefs of several government MPs going down positive with Covid-19. State Controller with certain Medical personals have appeared on media giving statements of the LOLOATA Covid situation. This is all Marape Government strategy in which Bryan Kramer is in control of with Manning to make sure Opposition MPs in Vanimo do not conduct the Dec 01 Parliament sitting. The contact tracing will be done as far as the National Parliament House, and few weeks of Lock Down will be announced in specifi

  By David Kawage Bitno James Marape is still the kingpin of executive power. The court as the custodian of the constitution only interprets the law. Decisions employing executive power not near miss an ultimate hit on the wavering plumb. The nation is at its feet in a relentless ovation that the political drama unfurled on the 13th of November is legally apt.  Opposition leader Belden Namah used the numerical power in a shocking move in the Parliament Sitting to periodically move the motion without notice from the Acting Speaker of Parliament. He engineered the prosperous dismantling of the Parliamentary Private Business Committee, the body that has the legality over the VONC. When PBC, the authoritative legal unit was made vacant, Namah gallantly advanced in wasting no time to move another motion without notice moving the motion of VONC effectively to December 1. The mass exodus of 13 Ministers including other government MPs to the opposition places Marabe government into unchartered

by JACIN PERAKIN If anybody recalls, Bryan Kramer did a chest-beating on Facebook recently and said he was the one who discovered the “flaws” in the adjournment of Parliament on 13 Nov. It is, therefore, safe to say that the reconvening of parliament in such a hasty manner by Speaker Job Pomat was at his behest. In doing that Kramer conveniently forgot a few things. Firstly that the Clerk of Parliament is a qualified lawyer with a law degree, not a jack of all trades like some. Secondly, that he himself, the powerful super minister, had voted FOR the adjournment. And third, that any reconvening of Parliament must be done on a minimum 7 days notice. Let us now look at these events. If the legal advice given by the clerk was flawed, I am certain that he stands to be subject to sanctions for providing faulty advice to Parliament through the Speaker. The scientist also conveniently forgot that by law, there are no two Speakers. Hence any decision made by the person sitting as Speaker on th

by PAUL AMATIO  LIKE JEFFREY NAPE BEFORE, JOB POMAT IS CREATING A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS I would ask everyone to consider these facts for a moment. If you can properly and logically look at the way this happened, it is a simple question of numbers on the floor. Nothing else. All MPs have let their feet show us how they stand. At this point we can try to influence and make them reconsider. But they control their own legs (and minds). We should look at the facts before us on exactly how events transpired and make our assessments based on these facts. 1. The decision made by the acting Speaker to adjourn parliament on 13 Nov was done in accordance with legal advice from the Clerk of Parliament. 2. The notice to adjourn parliament to the 01st of December was moved without objection. 3. Not a single MP (government or opposition) opposed or objected to this motion. They ALL supported the adjournment to 01 Dec.  4. In a parliamentary democracy like ours, when any bill is blocked in parliament