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The Papua New Guinea Labour Party was a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
in
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. It was launched in 2001 by the PNG Trade Union Congress, with Andrew Kandakasi as party president. In February 2002,
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president Greg Sword visited
Port Moresby (; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...
to support the party. PNGTUC secretary-general John Paska became the party leader for the 2002 election. Paska was unsuccessful, but Dr Bob Danaya was elected in Western Provincial. Danaya then supported
Michael Somare Sir Michael Thomas Somare (9 April 1936 – 25 February 2021) was a Papua New Guinean politician. Widely called the " father of the nation" (), he was the first Prime Minister after independence. At the time of his death, Somare was also the lo ...
for Prime Minister. Danaya was re-elected as the party's sole MP in the 2007 election. Danaya lost his seat to Ati Wobiro in the 2012 election. The party did not contest the 2017 election and as of 2018 was no longer registered.


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Labour parties Defunct political parties in Papua New Guinea Social democratic parties {{PapuaNewGuinea-party-stub