Bougainville elections will be held in March

By Gorethy Kenneth

Autonomous Bougainville’s second general election is set for March 2010.

The PNG National Government needs to allocate K3.8 million needed to run the election, according to the ABG election office.

ABG acting Electoral Commissioner Reitama Taravaru told the Post-Courier on Friday that the tentative election timetable for the 2010 ABG General Elections is as follows:

Issue of writ – 26 March

Close of nomination — 2 April

Polling starts — 7 May

Polling ends — 21 May

Return of writs — 9 June

“Preparations for 2010 ABG general elections have already started," Mr Taravaru said. "Much of our activities will be implemented next month. It will involve consultation with the council of elders because in the past elections we’ve not involved them. We will use them for awareness and common rolls update.

“There is also a team coming in from Port Moresby to assist us,” he said.

“We’ve identified certain areas where we will need support from the PNG Electoral Commission and they are mainly communication, training, developing training manuals, election regulations and funding.”

Mr Taravaru said during the first week of November there will be a full awareness program carried out, especially on Limited Preferential Voting. In the second week the commission will engage in the common roll update.

He said activities will continue until March when it would stop except for radio awareness.

He said Bougainvilleans outside the province need to enrol.

Source: PNG Post-Courier

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