Deputy Prime Minister and United Labour Party (ULP) Leader Sam Basil said political parties must practise transparency in the way in which they carry out fundraising activities to gear up for the 2022 National General Elections.
Basil said this in light of his party’s fundraising dinner last night at the APEC House in Port Moresby where individuals and the business community turned up in numbers to support the fundraising event.
“Political parties should come out transparently like this when raising funds to show our people how the parties are funded,” Mr Basil said.
“If Political parties do not have fundraising and somehow can manage to spend millions of kina, that’s where things go wrong when we go into an election.”
“I’d like to encourage all the parties and voters to understand that coming out like this to do fundraising is a very good and transparent way.”
He said the money raised from the fundraising event will be spent on ULP Party’s candidates’ posters, logistics and their nomination fees as well as their activities to gear up for the elections.