Legal provisions for direct democracy at the local level

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Answer
No
Source
Local-level Governments Administration Act 1997 at: http://?www.?paclii.?org/?pg/?legis/?consol_?act/?lgaa1997403/?

‘Local-level government’ as it is known in PNG is established and governed by the PNG-wide Organic Law on Provincial Government and Local-level Governments 1998 (linked in the previous question) and by the PNG wide Local-level Governments Administration Act 1997 

 

Both Acts deal with elections of local-level government representatives, but make no provision for referenda, plebiscites or other direct democracy measures.  (This is consistent with their absence at a national level, and restriction to questions of independence and government on the Autonomous island of Bougainville).

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