Allan Marat

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Allan Marat (born September 28, 1954 ) is a Papua New Guinean politician . He was Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the government of Prime Minister Michael Somare from August 2007 to May 2010.

From August 5, 2002 to November 12, 2003, Marat was Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Governor General in 2008. "Until his overthrow in early October 2003, Marat was leader of the People's Progress Party . He is now a member of the Melanesian Liberal Party .

In May 2010, Allan Marat was critical of the benefits of a major gas production project for the population and local businesses, and of Somares' plans to deprive a widely respected ombudsman commission of fighting corruption. Michael Somare told him to resign immediately, which he did. As a result of the resignation, Marat informed Somare that his Melanesian Liberal Party would sever “relations with the government”. He was replaced as Attorney General and Minister of Justice by Ano Pala . In August 2011, following the election of Peter O'Neill as Prime Minister, Marat was again appointed Attorney General and Attorney General. Marat was arrested along with Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah on November 14, 2011 by order of the Supreme Court. They were charged with obstructing an investigation into the misappropriation of court funds.

Marat was the first Papuan New Guinean to earn a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Oxford .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Somare's Cabinet" ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 410 kB), Post Courier , August 30, 2007
  2. ^ "Rencontre des chefs de la police de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée" ( Memento of 7 July 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Radio Australia , 2 June 2009
  3. ↑ "PNG Judiciary under stress" , The National , May 14, 2009
  4. ↑ “Presentation de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée: Composition du government” , Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France , August 29, 2007
  5. ↑ "PNG Justice Minister Receives death threat" , Radio Australia , 5 December 2008
  6. ^ "Embassy of Papua New Guinea to the Americas" , 2003
  7. ^ "Address by his Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC. Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia on the Occasion of Dinner hosted by the Hon Dr Allan Marat, Acting Governor-General of Papua New Guinea ” , August 3, 2008
  8. ↑ "Ousted PNG coalition party leader says Resultant instability a threat to foreign investment" , Radio New Zealand International , October 19, 2003
  9. ↑ "PNG gets new Attorney General and Justice Minister" , Radio New Zealand International , 10 May 2010
  10. ↑ "PNG gets new Attorney General and Justice Minister" , Radio New Zealand International , 10 May 2010
  11. ↑ PNG's acting PM, attorney-general arrested ; The Borneo Post, November 15, 2011 issue
  12. ↑ Bruce M. Knauft: "Exchanging the past: a rainforest world of before and after" , University of Chicago Press , 2002, ISBN 0-226-44635-2 , p. 66
personal data
SURNAME Marat, Allan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Papua New Guinean politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century