FILE PHOTO: Papua New Guinea’s then Prime Minister Peter O’Neill makes an address to the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia November 29, 2012. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne/File Photo
May 29, 2019
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, Peter O’Neill, has formally resigned, he said on Wednesday.
“At 9.35 a.m. this morning I delivered to his excellency…the governor-general, my letter of resignation,” he said in parliament at Port Moresby, the capital.
O’Neill had promised to resign on Sunday after a string of defections from his government plunged his leadership in to question last week and cost him his parliamentary majority.
(Reporting by Tom Westbrook; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
