300120 SELAU ELDER QUESTIONS WHY AFRAID OF THE CHANGES
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A Selau constituency elder, CONRAD PIRITS this afternoon questioned why many leaders are against the changes in the Bougainville Constitution when this very constitution will be totally overhauled to accommodate a new Constitution for the new country that the people of Bougainville have voted for in the November 2019 referendum.
He made these remarks at the consultation between the Parliamentary select Committee on constitutional law and the chiefs and the people of Selau/ Suir.
MR. PIRITS said that if this was the start of the changes why the many objections to the changes.
The Speaker and Chairman explained that with the vote for Independence, there is a need to establish a Bougainville Constitutional Commission to work on the new constitution for the Independent State of Bougainville.
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