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Star Alliance Party
Star Alliance Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea.
Star Alliance Party | |
|---|---|
| President | John Arabel [1] |
| Secretary | Hone Taylor [1] |
| National Parliament | 0 / 111 |
It first applied for party registration in 2006, and contested the 2007 election, endorsing 72 candidates but winning no seats.[2][3]
It won one seat at the 2012 election, with the election of Mehrra Kipefa in Obura-Wonenara Open.[4][5] The party was reported to have crossed from the government into opposition in July 2016 and supported a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Peter O'Neill; however, Kipefa crossed to the United Resources Party by November 2016, leaving the party once again unrepresented in parliament.[6][7][8]
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- ^ "Registrar stresses strict conditions for Papua New Guinea political parties". The National. 4 October 2006.
- ^ Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea. ANU ePress. 23 September 2013. ISBN 9781922144300.
- ^ "EHP counting update". PNG Post-Courier. 25 July 2012.
- ^ "Hon. Mehrra Minne Kipefa, MP". National Parliament of Papua New Guinea. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ "PNG Government confident of defeating motion of no confidence". PACNEWS. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ "URP fundraiser a success". PNG Post-Courier. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ (PDF). PNG Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.