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Result date of bihar election 2020. Toroama defeating an open field according to bougainvilles. Counting for the bougainville presidential seat is progressing well with only six candidates left in the race. Bougainville elects new president ishmael toroama as negotiations on independence from png ramp up by png correspondent natalie whiting posted 40 m minutes ago wed wednesday 23 sep september 2020.

440 candidates were contesting the 40 seats in the bougainville house of representatives including 25 competing to be president of the autonomous region of bougainville. Toroama clears lead 9202020 bougainville news headlines png news. An autonomous region in papua new guinea bougainville is aiming for independence and elected a president who shares that ambition.

The general election was the first since bougainville voted overwhelmingly for separation from papua new guinea last year with mr. In third was the former png mp simon dumarinu. Dumarinu has increased his lead over the next group of candidates tsiamalili raivet and semoso to 11000.

Ishmael toroama a former secessionist military commander turned peacemaker and cocoa farmer has been elected the president of pngs autonomous bougainville region in a further fillip for the provinces push for independence from papua new guinea. The new government will negotiate the outcome of the 2019 bougainvillean independence. Toroama is running for president a second time in 2015 he came a distant second to the retiring john momis.

Encouraged by his numbers and undeterred by defeat toroama has announced his candidacy for president of bougainville for the 2015 election distant second he finished a distant second to john momis who in that election received more than 51000 votes to toroamas 18466 but now five years on it seems that his political ambition is. Toroama is still more than 13000 votes ahead of the second placed candidate fr simon dumarinu while former bougainville president james tanis found himself eliminated. Former rebel military commander ishmael toroama who has been elected as president of bougainville an autonomous region of papua new guinea in the south pacific poses in an undated handout image.

By grant wyeth for the diplomat september 28 2020. So far only votes in southern bougainville had been counted but ishmael toroama had a nearly 5000 vote lead over the second placed james tanis. As of the 19th elimination th.