Third Female Member of the 9th Parliament of PNG

Julie Soso has just been declared as the member for Eastern Highlands Province defeating Sir Barry Holloway by eight thousand votes to pass the absolute majority. This now brings to three the number of female members of parliament which in itself is history in the making as being the most number of female members in a term of parliament. The other two female members are Dellilah Gore for Sohe Open and Lojaya Toni for Lae Open. Don Polye's THE party has now its second female member besides Dellilah Gore boosting its total by one and placing it as the party with the second largest number of declared members after Peter O'Neil's People's National Congress (PNC) Party. We congratulate the women of this country on their strive to be heard as equals in the running of this country.