The Our Development Party is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. The party was co-founded in 2011, after the O'Neill Government ousted the Somare Government, by Sir

Puka Temu Sir Puka Temu, (born 7 January 1954), is a Papua New Guinean politician. He has been a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since 2002, representing the electorate of Abau Open. A former Deputy Prime Minister under Michael So ...

and Andy Kenemu. At the time, it had 25 members in the

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. In the 2017 elections, the party won two seats, held by Francis Maneke and Temu. Both MPs left the party during the parliamentary term. As of May 2019, the party had 2 seats in the National Parliament. It is led by Temu, who is its sole MP. Temu returned to the party on 15 May 2019 after leaving People's National Congress. On 31 May 2019, former Deputy Prime Minister Charles Abel resigned from People‘s National Congress to join the party.

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