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Who will lead Papua New Guinea?
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Settled on 01/16/2012 19:10 Settled by
kruijs


Settled on 01/16/2012 19:10 Settled by


Winning option:ter O’Neill When he had not returned to the country by August, Parliament declared the prime ministership vacant and elected a popular opposition leader, Peter O’Neill, to take his place.
This has not changed since.
This has not changed since.
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From http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/asia/political-impasse-leaves-papua-with-2-governments.html
Politics in Papua New Guinea has long been fractious. Now it has turned surreal.
The latest in a series of twists and reversals has left the country with two rival prime ministers and cabinets, each claiming the sole right to govern, and with heavily armed police officers deployed in the streets of the capital, Port Moresby, on Tuesday, bracing for civil unrest.
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