Former Governor for Madang and People’s Labor Party man, Peter Yama is officially out of the race following exclusion number 34 today.
Yama bows out with 39 058 votes.
His votes will be distributed to the last three candidates still in the race.
Leading comfortably is lawyer and People’s First Party candidate Ramsey Pariwa with 100,537 votes.
Jerry Singirok secures the second spot with 60, 657 and Benny Panti on 39,703 votes.
Yama is a seasoned politician.
He was first elected to the 5th National Parliament for the Sumkar Open Seat in a by-election in October 1992 following the death of previous MP, Galen Lang in August 1992.
He served as the Minister for Works from September 1994, then Minister for Transport and Works in 1995.
In 2001, he launched the People’s Labor Party before going into Elections in 2002.
He was re-elected into the 7th Parliament as Member for Usino-Bundi.
In 2003 he succeeded Peter O’Neill as the Minister for Labour and Industrial Relations under Somara/Marat Government.
He was decommissioned as a Minister for State in the 12th of November 2002 and recommended for dismissal from Parliament by a Leadership Tribunal on charges of misconduct in office on the 1st of December 2004.
The dismissal was however overturned by the National Court in 2005.
Yama was then appointed the member of Pensions and Retirement Benefits Committee and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chair in May of 2006.
Mr Yama is also a prominent businessman in the Province.
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