The anti-corruption group, Transparency International, says a new
preferential voting system in Papua New Guinea has dramatically reduced
election related killings.
The Limited Preferential Vote system was brought in after the last general election four years ago replacing first-past-the-post.
That system was scrapped because of concerns MPs were being elected with less than ten percent of the vote which they could often achieve by relying on clan support.
TI's chairman, Mike Manning, says his organisation is confident that the LPV system has made electoral violence a thing of the past: "In the by elections in the Highlands that have been held since the 2002 elections under the LPV system there has been little or no election related violence, whereas in the 2002 elections there was more than one death a day during the election campaign."
Radio New Zealand International
PO Box 123, Wellington, New Zealand
The Limited Preferential Vote system was brought in after the last general election four years ago replacing first-past-the-post.
That system was scrapped because of concerns MPs were being elected with less than ten percent of the vote which they could often achieve by relying on clan support.
TI's chairman, Mike Manning, says his organisation is confident that the LPV system has made electoral violence a thing of the past: "In the by elections in the Highlands that have been held since the 2002 elections under the LPV system there has been little or no election related violence, whereas in the 2002 elections there was more than one death a day during the election campaign."
Radio New Zealand International
PO Box 123, Wellington, New Zealand
